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Mark Cancian, a retired U.S. Marine colonel and senior adviser at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, explains what to expect in the next phase of the Ukraine war, why Ukraine needs more bullets, and why the Russian military is running out of time. 

Many conscript-age Kyrgyz men who received Russian passports in recent years are being called on to join Russian forces in Ukraine. Meanwhile, several Kyrgyz nationals have volunteered to fight in Ukraine, some as contractors and others hoping for a fast track to Russian citizenship. 

Russian officials, including Vladimir Putin, have justified the war in Ukraine with dubious historical claims that Ukraine is not a “real country.” Historians in Ukraine are now fighting – literally and figuratively – against what they say is Russia’s effort to “destroy Ukrainian identity.”

Leading Western experts on fascism agree that Vladimir Putin's Russia is an aggressive and dangerous dictatorship that shares some characteristics with fascist regimes. But, they say, it is not fascist itself, and other historical precedents are more useful for understanding the Kremlin.

As more coffins and death notices come home, the brutal reality of Moscow's six-week war in Ukraine begins to hit regular families.

In a joint interview with RFE/RL, Columbia University's Tanya Domi and Dr. Laura Cohen, director of the Holocaust center at the City University of New York, discuss the role of the ICC and the UN in pursuing Ukraine war crimes allegations, and look at comparisons with Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Former Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid spoke to RFE/RL's Georgian Service about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In the interview, she called on NATO allies to give the Ukrainians as many weapons as they can and for sanctions to continue beyond a possible cease-fire.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a flamboyant firebrand whose outlandish persona couldn't quite hide his submissive role in President Vladimir Putin's political system, is dead at 75. In Ukraine, evidence of atrocities mounts as a Russian retreat in the north exposes horrific scenes of death and devastation.

An English teacher in Penza is facing prosecution after students recorded her criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine. Teachers, activists, and others have increasingly been targeted by denunciations – often anonymous – that remind some of the darkest repressions under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

An investigation by Current Time and Meduza looks at the secretive life of the Dutch man who is believed to have been Vladimir Putin’s son-in-law -- the husband of Putin’s eldest daughter, Maria.