Ukraine at war

All of our coverage of the war in one place

Latest analysis

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant were killed in a blast outside of an apartment building in Moscow.

The killing of a Russian general shows Ukraine’s spies remain lethal

Igor Kirillov was accused of ordering the use of chemical weapons

A Ukrainian tank crew member of the 68th Jaeger Brigade walks next to a Leopard 1A5 tank

Ukrainian troops celebrate a grim Christmas in Kursk

A local paper braves Russian bombs to deliver news on the front line



Amid Russian bombing, Ukraine is planning more nuclear reactors

Atomic power may not solve the country’s energy woes

How to make a success of peace talks with Vladimir Putin

The key is robust security guarantees for Ukrainians

How will Donald Trump handle the war in Ukraine?

And how will Ukraine, Russia and Europe respond?



The military campaigns

How many Ukrainian soldiers have died?

Three charts show the country’s losses

Footage released by a Ukranian charity show flashes over Dnipro of possible Russia intercontinental ballistic missile attack

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 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


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


Life for Ukrainians

A view shows multi-storey residential buildings destroyed in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in the town of Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region

Kremlin-occupied Ukraine is now a totalitarian hell

The Trump administration should remember Vladimir Putin’s dark vision

The search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers and sailors

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



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


Geopolitics

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

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


Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky

Why Volodymyr Zelensky may welcome Donald Trump’s victory

Disillusion with Joe Biden has reached deep levels


Vladimir Putin’s spies are plotting global chaos

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


Domestic Russia

The war in Ukraine is straining Russia’s economy and society

Despite advances on the battlefield, pressure is growing

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?


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


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


Latest coverage

Finance & economics

Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia

Whether that lasts depends on its ability to overcome acute shortages of power, men and money

Europe

The killing of a Russian general shows Ukraine’s spies remain lethal

Igor Kirillov was accused of ordering the use of chemical weapons

Europe

Ukrainian troops celebrate a grim Christmas in Kursk

A local paper braves Russian bombs to deliver news on the front line

Europe

Amid Russian bombing, Ukraine is planning more nuclear reactors

Atomic power may not solve the country’s energy woes

Europe

How Ukraine uses cheap AI-guided drones to deadly effect against Russia

Ukraine is making tens of thousands of them

Finance & economics

Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort

Supplies from China are about to become more expensive

Briefing

The war in Ukraine is straining Russia’s economy and society

Despite advances on the battlefield, pressure is growing

Leaders

How to make a success of peace talks with Vladimir Putin

The key is robust security guarantees for Ukrainians

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

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