Ukraine at war

All of our coverage of the war in one place

Latest analysis

An illustration of the national memorial to the Winter War at the Kasarmitori square, in Helsinki, Finland

The perils of appeasing a warlike Russia

Finland’s cold-war past offers urgent lessons for Ukraine’s future

The US Army conducts live fire tests of the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, United States on December 14th 2021

Ukraine can, at last, use its Western missiles inside Russia

Joe Biden wants to send North Korea a message


Ukrainian soldiers (and French soldiers) in a military camp.

Ukraine’s secret army in France

A new force is being marshalled to take on the Kremlin’s men


Kremlin-occupied Ukraine is now a totalitarian hell

The Trump administration should remember Vladimir Putin’s dark vision

Why Volodymyr Zelensky may welcome Donald Trump’s victory

Disillusion with Joe Biden has reached deep levels

Hell, horror and heroism in Ukraine’s battlefield hospitals

The gruesome lessons its doctors are learning reveal the nature of war in the 21st century

Ukraine is now struggling to cling on, not to win



The military campaigns

Miners work underground near the city of Pokrovsk, Ukraine

Why Russia is trying to seize a vital Ukrainian coal mine

Without it, the country’s remaining steel industry will be crippled

Ukrainian soldiers of the Da Vinci Wolves Battalion during weapons training in the Donetsk region of Ukraine

Russia continues to advance in eastern Ukraine

But it is encountering growing problems


A local woman walks past the impact crater after a Russian strike on a residential area in Pokrovsk amid Russia's attack on Ukraine.

Danger in Donbas as Ukraine’s front line falters

Russian fighters are trying to encircle the defenders


The rights, wrongs and risks of Ukraine’s Kursk incursion

Ukrainian forces should be careful not to overreach



Life for Ukrainians

The search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers and sailors

The families of missing loved ones are trying to find them, alive or dead


A Ukrainian soldier looks at artillery fire at the frontline in the Donetsk region

Ukraine is on the defensive, militarily, economically and diplomatically

Russian advances, fatigue among its allies and political divisions at home leave it in a bind


Amid the bombs, Ukrainians rediscover the beach

Odessa gives itself permission to tan again



Geopolitics

illustration shows three images of Russian President Vladimir Putin, each facing a different direction. Behind him is a purple triangle with lines radiating out like rays, and there are eye-like shapes floating around the image

Vladimir Putin’s spies are plotting global chaos

Russia is enacting a revolutionary plan of sabotage, arson and assassination

Close-up black and white photograph of Volodymyr Zelensky

The war is going badly. Ukraine and its allies must change course

Time for credible war aims—and NATO membership


member of the military walks past a MBDA Storm Shadow/Scalp missile at the Farnborough Airshow

Let Ukraine hit military targets in Russia with American missiles

Hitting back at the forces blasting Ukrainian cities is legal and proportionate


Taiwan is trying to learn from the wars in Gaza and Ukraine

Could it repel a potential Chinese invasion?

Clearing Ukraine’s mines is crucial for global food security, say Howard Buffett and Tony Blair

With the right sort of technology and financing, it needn’t take a century

American restrictions on hitting Russia are hurting Ukraine

The Biden administration’s justifications keep changing



Domestic Russia

Protesters holds a banner reading "Thank you Wagner", the name of the Russian private security firm present in Mali

How Wagner survived Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death

Its mercenary model is still effective in Africa’s most fragile places

How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade

He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?


Officials work on the site of a Ukrainian missile strike at an apartment in Belgorod, Russia

Death and destruction in a Russian city

Russians in the border city of Belgorod have become victims too in the war Vladimir Putin launched against Ukraine


The Kremlin is rewriting Wikipedia

A new version of history is taking shape


Global economic fallout

Equipment at one of the largest interconnection gas hubs in Europe at Baumgarten an der March, Lower Austria

The West still needs Russian gas that comes through Ukraine

Austria, Hungary and Slovakia are particularly dependent on it

A shopkeeper shines a torch during a blackout in an underground shopping mall in central Kyiv, Ukraine, June 19th 2024

Ukraine has a month to avoid default

Lending to a borrower at war entails an additional gamble: that it will win


A worker turns a valve wheel at a gas well on a Gazprom base in Lensk district, Sakha Republic, Russia

Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine

Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain


What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?

The question that now confronts Western policymakers


Explaining the war

Russian Air Force Mil Mi-8 helicopter flying.

The battle between drones and helicopters in Ukraine

Small cheap drones could pose a new threat to expensive Russian craft


A Donetsk People's Republic soldier poses on a motorbike in front of a bloodied stretcher at a frontline field hospital in Mariupol.

Why Russian troops are attacking on motorbikes

New conditions give rise to new tactics


How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?

Four charts illustrate a grim new milestone

Ukraine has a navy that needs no sailors

It does a surprisingly good job of destroying Russian vessels

Russia is ramping up sabotage across Europe

The Kremlin believes it is in a shadow war with NATO



Latest coverage

Briefing

How will Donald Trump handle the war in Ukraine?

And how will Ukraine, Russia and Europe respond?

Graphic detail

How many Ukrainian soldiers have died?

Three charts show the country’s losses

Europe

Ukraine’s warriors brace for a Kremlin surge in the south 

Vladimir Putin’s war machine is pushing harder and crushing Ukrainian morale

Europe

Vladimir Putin fires a new missile to amplify his nuclear threats

The attack on Ukraine is part of a new era of missile warfare

The World Ahead Europe in 2025

A fiscal squeeze in 2025 will harm Europe’s growth

It will affect politics and the war in Ukraine, too

The World Ahead Europe in 2025

Fighting in Ukraine could wind down in 2025

What might a possible deal look like?

Europe

Ukraine can, at last, use its Western missiles inside Russia

Joe Biden wants to send North Korea a message

International

The perils of appeasing a warlike Russia

Finland’s cold-war past offers urgent lessons for Ukraine’s future

Europe

Ukraine’s secret army in France

A new force is being marshalled to take on the Kremlin’s men

By Invitation

War in Ukraine may only intensify under Trump, says Dmytro Kuleba

The country’s former foreign minister explains the powderkeg that is three leaders in a cannot-lose standoff

Europe

Volodymyr Zelensky faces a power struggle in 2025

As morale ebbs in Ukraine there is talk of a change at the top

Europe

Kremlin-occupied Ukraine is now a totalitarian hell

The Trump administration should remember Vladimir Putin’s dark vision

International

What the world thinks of Trump, Ukraine and Chinese supremacy

A new poll of 30,000 people worldwide has some surprising results

Europe

Hell, horror and heroism in Ukraine’s battlefield hospitals

The gruesome lessons its doctors are learning reveal the nature of war in the 21st century

Europe

Ukraine is now struggling to cling on, not to win

Russia is slicing through Ukrainian defences in parts of the battlefield

Europe

Germany’s populist superstar demands peace with Russia

In an interview Sahra Wagenknecht trashes the consensus on Ukraine—and much more

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