“Some intelligence reports” indicate that 1,200,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded since February 2022, according to a May 2026 FT article. Russian forces have lost some 1,400,000 killed ...

Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia presently controls, including Crimea and parts of Donbas that Russia had seized prior to the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022: +45,199 square miles.

Russia has adopted a “new theory of victory” in the war against Ukraine: not simply seizing territory or destroying energy infrastructure, but making Ukrai ...

Find past issues in the Russia-Ukraine War Report Card archive. Sept. 29, 2026, update: Based on data from Ukraine’s DeepState OSINT group, in the past four weeks (Sept. 1–29, 2026), Russia made a net ...

“Declaration of the Council of Heads of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Strengthening Multilateral Partnership for Nuclear and Physical Nuclear Security,” SCO member states, ...

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As Russia's war against Ukraine and its consequent confrontation with NATO drag on ever closer to the five-year mark, understanding the Russian military remains critical for ensuring the security of ...

Julian Waller of CNA argues that elections to Russia’s State Duma on Sept. 18–20 may be “repressive and predictable,” but “that does not make them politically meaningless.” He writes in a commentary ...

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