Ukraine's president Zelensky is expected to present a strategy for beating Putin's forces to President Biden next week.

Western governments and Russia's exiled opposition should begin laying the groundwork for Russia's democratic transition after President Vladimir Putin eventually leaves office, Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician,

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Leaked documents report 'depressed' Russian soldiers have been taking their own lives rather than fightin the Ukrainians.

Rightly embarrassed, Putin ordered the Kremlin to recapture Kursk by Oct. 1. And on Wednesday, Russian troops dutifully launched a counterattack along the western edge of the Ukrainian salient. “Russia's counteroffensive to drive Ukrainians out of the Kursk region has officially begun,” Finnish analyst Joni Askola announced.

Nearly half of Russians back the withdrawal of their troops from Ukraine without achieving the goals of President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion, according to a new poll. Independent Russian pollster Chronicles said that Ukraine's incursion into the Kursk region on August 6 had dented morale among the population about the war started by Moscow more than two-and-a-half years ago.

There is an air of desperation around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky these days as he tries to convince his Western allies, the United States in particular, that he has a realistic plan to force Russian President Vladimir Putin to give up his maximalist goals and sue for peace.

Russians are furious after Ukraine destroyed an important ammunition depot in Russia earlier this week, with locals in the Tver Oblast of Russia taking aim at officials