According to RM’s measurements using ISW data, from April 8, 2025, to April 7, 2026, Russia captured 1,897 square miles ...

Russia: +29,000 square miles. 12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to half the size of the U.S. state of Illinois). Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia presently controls, including ...

Alexei Chepa, First Deputy Head of the Russian State Duma’s International Affairs Committee expressed hope that the United States will become preoccupied with the conflict in Iran and “forget” about ...

In that scenario [oil at $200 a barrel], sustained higher oil prices could plunge the world into a recession, raise borrowing costs, alter the outcome of ongoing wars, and shift the balance of ...

In that case, I think China would send a sharp message (as it did with Russia in 2022) that it strongly opposed any such action,” Ignatius said. Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan argue in FA that ...