As Russian President Vladimir Putin heads to Alaska for a high-stakes summit with US President Donald Trump, his battlefield strategy in Ukraine may be colliding with a new front, economic survival.

Russia is likely preparing for offensive operations in priority areas of the front line and limited offensive actions in southern Ukraine, particularly in Kherson Oblast, The Institute for the Study ...

Putin and Trump will meet Friday in Alaska, the first time the Russian leader has been permitted on US soil since his 2022 ...

Putin has insisted on Ukraine renouncing aspirations to join NATO or allow NATO forces on its territory; conceding Russian sovereignty over the four provinces it annexed in 2022; the demilitarization ...

A total of 148 combat clashes have occurred on the battlefield over the past day. Ukrainian defenders have repelled 56 ...

Around 650,000 men of fighting age are thought to have fled Ukraine. Others hide, like Pavlo, or bribe draft officers and ...

The summit between the Russian and US leaders will be held in Alaska on August 15. Putin’s previous visit to the United States took place in 2015.

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European leaders said today that they had hammered out a strategy with President Trump for his meeting later this week with ...

Russia has struggled to take a fortress defensive belt that blocks further advances.

"Space Command works very closely with U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command as the Army Service Component," said Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey.