A short history of Russia and Ukraine Seven maps that illustrate Vladimir Putin’s distortion of history. Share. ... (see map 1). Its centre was Kyiv, now Ukraine’s capital.

We break down the history, politics and economics of the Ukraine-Russia crisis in eight graphics. [Al Jazeera] History of the USSR. Russia and Ukraine were part of the 15 Soviet republics that ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said an old map proves Ukraine isn't a real country. But the document in fact shows the area near Kyiv labeled as "Ukraine." Putin has cited his much-criticized ...

Moscow's forces made gains in the Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia regions, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Ground reports analysed by the American non-profit Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and other publications also indicate ...

Since then Ukraine and Russia have suffered a million casualties, and Ukraine’s infrastructure may be wrecked for a generation. Russia’s ties to China are closer than at any time since the 1950s.

Trump is very badly wrong to suggest that Ukraine started this war and bears responsibility for failing to ... Trump’s telling of how the Ukraine war began represents some very deluded history.

They began with the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 amid the illusion of the “end of history.” Ukraine yielded its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from the U.S., U.K. and Russia.

Ukraine has won back significant ground from occupying Russian troops in its ongoing counteroffensive in the south and east of the country, according to the latest battlefield maps published by ...

As negotiators try to hammer out a partial ceasefire, NPR's Juana Summers talks to Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy about Russia's history of broken promises to Ukraine.

The question of where Ukraine’s borders with Russia should be drawn in any peace negotiations came into sharp focus this week after Pete Hegseth, the U.S. defense secretary, said that it was ...

President Donald Trump’s desire to negotiate a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine is a moral one. Ukraine is likely to make painful concessions to secure peace as long as Russia knows any future ...