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.

Security forces in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg broke up an event dedicated to writing letters to political prisoners on Sunday, Mediazona reported, citing an eyewitness.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he was “not happy” with Russian President Vladimir Putin following Russia’s deadly large-scale strike on Ukraine overnight on May 25.

Russian forces launched drone and missile strikes on Ukraine overnight on Monday, targeting several regions, including Kyiv, where an air raid alert lasted for six hours.

Donald Trump’s social media post criticizing Vladimir Putin over Russia’s attacks on Ukraine over the weekend was the result of “emotional overload,” the Kremlin said on Monday.

Germany, the U.K., France, and the U.S. have lifted restrictions on how far the weapons they supply to Ukraine can reach, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday.

For 30 years, the deceptively named Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) was defined by its larger-than-life founder, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. A bombastic ultranationalist, Zhirinovsky openly espoused expansionist views and demonized the West long before…

Across the country, Russians frustrated by factory emissions, dilapidated housing, and pollution are turning to the president for help. After their complaints to prosecutors, local officials, and police go unanswered, they record public video appeals to Vladimir…

“No,” Meduza’s 10th anniversary art exhibition, is on view at Berlin’s Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien gallery through July 6. The project brings together artists and journalists to reflect on the major themes that have shaped the past decade — from dictatorship…

U.S. President Donald Trump is considering imposing new sanctions on Russia as early as this week, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.