Countless pundits have denigrated Ukraine’s Kursk offensive, and nearly all the criticism has focused on geography: Sudzha, Pokrovsk, Kursk. But this misses the point. The offensive is not about ...

How History, Geography Help Explain Ukraine's Political Crisis. The country rests precariously between East and West. By Eve Conant. January 31, 2014 ...

How History, Geography Help Explain Ukraine's Political Crisis At first there were no such divisions. In the ninth century, Ukraine, known as Kievan Rus, was becoming the early seat of Slavic ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's top diplomat said the Kremlin's geographical war goals in Ukraine have changed. "Now the geography is different," Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an ...

Russia’s objectives in Ukraine now extend beyond the eastern Donbas region into the country’s south, a senior government minister has said. As the war in Ukraine approaches its fifth month ...

Launching drones at air bases 300 miles from its own territory, Ukraine changed the geography of the war. It said it had developed drones with a range of over 600 miles.