War in Ukraine

Russia’s wartime spending is running into a problem: how to maintain record levels of military output as hydrocarbon revenues decline, reserves are depleted, and the budget comes under growing strain.

When drones defeat tanks, innovation becomes the new weapon. Ukraine’s battlefield has upended traditional military thinking. Success now favors those who can improvise faster and scale smarter.

At just 21, Canadian volunteer Cooper came to Ukraine to fight. Wounded but undeterred, he’s already taken part in historic battles—including Kupiansk, where his unit’s strength and Russia’s lies were laid bare.

With Russian military losses surpassing 1.2 million, the army is destroying itself from within. Torture, executions, and terror now define life behind Russia’s front lines. Are prison sentences the safer alternative and do draft refusals actually lead there?

Amid US-mediated peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, Putin continues to invoke Donbas and the “Novorossiya,” claiming to seize it even as Russian forces fail to decisively break through Ukrainian defensive lines in the Donetsk region. What does this term mean, and what does this rhetoric reveal about Moscow’s actual intentions for “peace”?

After several rounds of talks in Abu Dhabi, two key issues remain unresolved: territory in Ukraine’s Donetsk region and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine is ready for further talks and has reached an understanding with the United States on other points. The only exception: not in Russia or Belarus.