Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China ...

"What we are seeing is a profound change in the character of war" A US-based private research group, the Institute for the Study of War founder Kimberly Kagan unveils what goes into their work and ...

A map displayed in Russia’s ministry of defence suggests that Vladimir Putin is claiming huge swathes of Ukraine that his ...

On August 6, Ukrainian forces crossed from the Sumy region into Russia and swiftly seized a significant part of the Sudzhansky district in the Kursk Oblast. Over the ensuing weeks, Ukraine made a ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China ...

Debris from the aircraft, which Russia is increasingly using in Ukraine, has fallen in at least four towns in the east of the ...

During negotiations with the United States in Saudi Arabia, Russia reportedly demanded full control over the four Ukrainian regions it said it had annexed. A map by Newsweek shows Vladimir Putin's ...

As President Trump attempts to help negotiate an end to Russia's war in Ukraine, questions have grown about what will happen to Ukrainian territory claimed by the Kremlin and held by Russian forces.

The map in the Oval Office included areas of Ukraine under Russian occupation Russia has occupied a fifth of Ukrainian territory - and a big map showing the area shaded in red was put up in the Oval ...

While Moscow has publicly insisted on full control of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, the map indicated possible plans extending to Odesa and Kharkiv, neither of which had been ...

This situation brings us the closest we have been to open conflict since World War II," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk ...