War in Ukraine

While Russia is taking lives, others are doing everything they can to save them. Every day, thousands of combat medics and doctors make their utmost effort to preserve the lives and health of Ukraine’s defenders. In evacuation vehicles, at stabilization points, and in hospitals, their mission remains unchanged—to ensure their patients survive. We spoke with four medics about the challenges they face.

This Russian soldier tried to flee the army three times. The first two ended in torture. The third saved his life—he surrendered to the Ukrainian forces.

Russia has spent hundreds of millions launching thousands of drones and missiles at Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure, targeting electricity, heating, homes, schools, and hospitals, and causing civilian deaths and widespread damage. But what has this costly campaign actually delivered?

A new generation of modular, drone-linked military communications is taking shape in Russia, designed to operate where infrastructure doesn’t exist: the Arctic.

Ukraine’s self-produced interceptor drones recently made the headlines worldwide as Gulf countries turn to Kyiv to provide cheap defense systems against Iran-made Shahed drones. What are the interceptor drones, and what makes them so valuable? 

For years, the Kremlin insisted sanctions didn’t matter while warning that any further pressure would trigger escalation. That contradiction may now be resolving itself, as the slow economic strain Russia once dismissed begins to accelerate.