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In Ukraine, the new year has brought no respite from Russia's war and little hope of peace. Air raid sirens blared and explosions boomed under a barrage of exploding drones. In turn, Ukraine confirmed it carried out a weekend attack that killed scores of Russian troops. Nikolas Gvosdev, professor of national security at the U.S. Naval War College, joined Amna Nawaz to discuss the state of the war.

Security experts told Newsweek that the prisoner swap signals that the U.S. and Russia is returning to Cold War-era patterns.

Prioritizing climate change and domestic extremists over geopolitics.

Russias newest attacks come as its Ministry of Defense is moving forward with the purchase of at least 10 unmanned underwater vehicles.

Ukraine’s Western allies are taking Vladimir Putin’s veiled nuclear threats seriously, and seeking to deter him without risking Armageddon.

The Russian president is "trying to shift to a stalemate," said one expert on Russian-Ukrainian relations.

With Russia’s military setbacks in Ukraine, there’s been increasingly open criticism of President Putin and his war. We examine Putin's pressure points.

New York, United States–Even as Western allies unleash new economic pressures on Russia with businesses announcing market pullouts, and an intensifica

Sanction resilience and understanding the West’s pain points are part of Putin’s long-term calculus.

He alone can make the choice to bring Europe back from the brink of a major war.