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Philip Breedlove says the West is so concerned about the possibility of nuclear conflict with Russia that "we have allowed ourselves to be fully deterred." He also tells RFE/RL that the West likely has no possible "off-ramp" to offer Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his invasion of Ukraine.

Opinion surveys conducted by Russian pollsters – both state-controlled and independent – show that support for President Vladimir Putin has grown since the February 24 invasion of Ukraine, along with approval for his government. Here’s why that support may not be as robust as the surveys say. 

Bosnian Dzemil Hodzic's search through the backwaters of the Internet for wartime memories of his late brother results in a miracle.

China and Russia denials about the Bucha killings, Beijing and Afghanistan, why China needs Orban, a tense EU summit, and Pakistan’s turmoil.

In an interview with RFE/RL's Balkan Service, the former CIA director and commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, David Petraeus, says that Ukraine is at a "pivotal" and "perilous" moment.

As workers struggle to clear the bodies of civilians from the streets of the Ukrainian town of Bucha, and investigators struggle to compile evidence, RFE/RL has pinpointed some of the Russian military units known to have occupied the city.

A Kazakh town has elected a mayor with no connection to the country's ruling party, unlike most politicians. Residents say Raiymbek Musaghali won the "first-ever real election" in a country with no record of free and fair votes.

Gleb Pavlovsky, a Kremlin spin doctor and former adviser to Vladimir Putin who later became a critic, says the Russian leader has fallen into a trap in Ukraine. In an interview with RFE/RL's Georgian Service, Pavlovsky predicts Russia's invasion of Ukraine will cost Putin and Russia dearly. 

Few observers doubted the institutional advantages that Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling party had given itself to secure a fourth term in government. But almost no one predicted a win "so big that you can see it from the moon" -- and dire implications for the state of Hungary's democracy.

Start-up founder Sergei Krupnik, who left Russia shortly after it invaded Ukraine, is one of tens of thousands of IT workers who have fled the country. The exodus will have economic and cybersecurity ramifications for years.