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Mick Ryan, a retired major general in the Australian Army and a fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, explains why Moscow prefers a war of attrition and how Western arms can help Ukraine retake territory in the east and south.

NATO leaders will gather in Madrid on June 28-30 in one of the most anticipated meetings the military alliance has held in recent times. Ukraine, possible new Nordic members. This is what we might expect.

A substantial number of the Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine receive their military pay and combat bonuses through Gazprombank, which has escaped the most severe Western sanctions that have hamstrung other large Russian lenders, an investigation by Schemes shows.

Scenes of everyday life have replaced the devastation caused by the aborted Russian advance on Ukraine's capital after a remarkably swift cleanup in some areas of the Kyiv region.

Maria Shagina from the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) talks about China becoming the top buyer of Russian oil, whether Beijing will help Russia get access to advanced chips and semiconductors, and the significance of the recent BRICS summit. 

Romania is considering a bill that would ban minors from being exposed to so-called "gay propaganda" in schools and in public life, despite warnings from rights groups that it would "fuel Russian disinformation campaigns" and reinstate censorship.

Ukraine’s strike against a Black Sea offshore platform controlled by Russia may be part of a campaign to free its shipping lanes. Russia may have installed radar systems on the platform.

Faced with a deepening personnel crisis for its war in Ukraine, Russian authorities are recruiting from republics in the North Caucasus and looking to form extra units along ethnic lines.

In Ukraine, investigators hunt for details and identities of Russian soldiers alleged to have committed war crimes. An RFE/RL reporter hunts for details about one of the soldiers in a tiny, remote village in central Russia.

In a live discussion on June 23, I spoke with Shalkar Nurseitov, a political analyst from Kazakhstan, about the role of tribalism and kinship in the present and the future of his country.