President Donald Trump engaged Ukraine, Russian leaders throughout 2025 in unprecedented diplomatic push to end the war, including Alaska summit and Mar-a-Lago meetings.

A Brief History Of Ukraine (And Why Russia Wants To Control It) In this animated video, historian Matt Lewis tells the story of Ukraine's turbulent and often surprising history. Beginning over a thousand years ago with the formation of the Kyivan Rus state ...

Western diplomatic efforts to negotiate a ceasefire with Moscow have repeatedly failed, showing that despite the immense costs Russia has borne since 2022, its goals in Ukraine remain largely unchanged. Despite mounting economic, military-industrial, and ...

Russia's war on Ukraine is being fueled by a range of international partners. To change the Kremlin's calculus, the West needs to target them. Sometimes, it is said, in order to make a problem smaller, you need to make it bigger first. So it is with the ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --Here is a question few have posed or even considered: What will be the fate of Russia after the war in Ukraine ends, as it must sometime? The history of Russia and the USSR after wars ended, and neither was on the winning side, offers a hint ...

Off the battlefield, each side is trying to influence President Trump’s perception of the military conflict as they look to negotiate a peace settlement in their favor.

We asked members of the Kyiv Independent community to share the questions they have about the war. Here's what they asked and how we answered. Join our community to ask a question in the next round. Question: Why has the Ukrainian government chosen not to lower the conscription age to 18 despite the country’s manpower shortages and ongoing security threats from Russia?

A view shows a petrol station of the Russian oil producer Gazprom Neft in Moscow on Jan. 13, 2025. A view shows a petrol station of the Russian oil producer Gazprom Neft in Moscow on Jan. 13, 2025. Natalia Kolesnikova—AFP/Getty Images Ukraine had a ...

Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is being met with a double standard by some scholars, who suggest that the West is to blame and that restraint should be demanded of the victim, rather than

Peace remains imaginable in abstract terms, but until the underlying political and ideological costs of compromise are fundamentally altered, it remains strategically unsafe. The tragedy of the Russia–Ukraine war lies not only in its human toll,

Moscow said a Ukrainian drone attack targeted a residence of President Vladimir V. Putin, which Ukraine denied, accusing the Kremlin of fabricating an excuse not to make peace.