Andriy Portnov, a former top aide to ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, was shot dead in a wealthy neighborhood outside Madrid on Wednesday. The ex-official was reportedly killed shortly after dropping off his children at the American School of…

U.S. President Donald Trump privately told European leaders that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not prepared to end the war in Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the conversation. The remarks reportedly…

Russian air defense forces shot down 35 Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow on Wednesday night, according to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.

Officers from the Russian Investigative Committee raided the homes of relatives of Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Olga Borisova, Mediazona reported on Thursday, citing the activists themselves.

U.S. President Donald Trump told European leaders on May 19 that the next round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations will take place at the Vatican, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the conversation.

The Russian state-sponsored hacker group known as Fancy Bear hacked into security cameras in an effort to surveil Western aid deliveries to Ukraine and disrupt supplies routes, The Guardian reported on Thursday, citing the intelligence services of the U.K.…

More than 20 Russian-born residents of Serbia have been left stateless after giving up their Russian citizenship in order to receive Serbian passports, only to be denied them, The Moscow Times reported on Thursday.

Two weeks ago, a Russian soldier became so desperate to break his army contract that he attempted suicide — and effectively livestreamed the act. Pavel Stovchan, a 35-year-old contract fighter whose social media profile still reads "Keep working, brothers…

At 4:00 p.m. on May 24, Spanish artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo will activate his Expanded Memorial for Alexey Navalny at Meduza’s “No” art exhibition in Berlin. Visitors will be able to take home a miniature figurine of the late opposition politician, in…

Ukrainian drones targeted the city of Yelets in Russia’s Lipetsk region overnight. According to Governor Igor Artamonov, debris from one of the drones, shot down by air defenses, fell on a residential building, damaging around 20 apartments.

Ukraine has proposed that E.U. countries begin contributing to the funding of its armed forces starting in 2026, Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said following a meeting of G7 finance officials.

Finance ministers and central bank governors from the G7 countries discussed the possibility of lowering the agreed price cap on Russian oil if Moscow refuses to agree to a ceasefire, Reuters reported on Friday.

Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article takes stock of the recent developments on the battlefield based on open-source information. Meduza has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the very start, and our detailed military…

Russian forces struck port infrastructure in the Ukrainian city of Odesa on Friday the afternoon, according to Governor Oleh Kiper. One port worker was killed in the strike. Eight others were wounded, four of whom were hospitalized in serious condition.

Russia and Ukraine are expected to reach an “imperfect deal by end of Q2” that will freeze the ongoing war but stop short of a comprehensive peace agreement, according to a new analytical report from the geopolitics arm of JPMorganChase. 

Russia has received 270 prisoners of war and 120 civilians returned from Ukrainian captivity, the country’s Defense Ministry said on Friday. In exchange, Moscow transferred 270 Ukrainian soldiers and 120 civilians to Kyiv as part of a prisoner swap. The Russians…

Russia will be ready to present its list of ceasefire conditions to Ukraine immediately after the ongoing prisoner exchange between the two countries is completed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has announced, according to state media.

Journalists from Denmark’s public broadcaster Radio Denmark obtained roughly 50,000 internal emails from Russia’s Foundation for the Support and Protection of the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad (“Pravfond”), revealing how the group “collaborated with…

On May 23, Russia and Ukraine exchanged 270 captured soldiers and 120 imprisoned civilians each. According to “Khochu k Svoim,” Ukraine’s state-run project that coordinates the exchange of convicts, 70 of the civilians transferred to Russia had been found…

On the night of May 24-25, Russian forces launched nearly 300 drones and 70 missiles in one of the largest air assaults on Ukraine since the start of the war, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 60.