A few more targeted hits could cripple Russia's military supply chains and its war economy, writes Suriya Jayanti.

Military analysts and some Ukrainian commanders worry that Kyiv may be repeating the mistake of staying in an embattled city longer than it should, aiming to inflict far more casualties than it suffers.

The mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine, Vitali Klitschko, is sounding the alarm over the number of soldiers the country can retain as it fights to stave off Russian forces. Klitschko said Ukraine is having “huge problems” finding enough soldiers to defend the country,

Last month, Russia made its largest territorial gains of any month since summer 2022, highlighting Ukraine's challenges.

Russian President Vladimir Putin “has put us on notice that we need to quickly build those steps of the ladder of the defense of our outer perimeter,” Poland's foreign minister said.

He told Putin he might give Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles, and he tried to berate Volodymyr Zelensky into conceding territory, but both to no avail. Trump canceled a planned summit with Putin,

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Ukraine would have to negotiate with Russia "sooner or later" and predicted that Kyiv's negotiating position would get worse by the day.

Ukraine faces a major draft-evasion problem, but no place is quite like Vylkove, a Danube River town where men of draft age have all but vanished, many of them trying to avoid military service.

President-elect Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. The outlet said the two leaders spoke by phone on Thursday.