When I first ventured into Eastern ... Europe is a muddy question. Some sources categorise it as being the Eastern Bloc; in other words, only including countries that were Communist during the ...

Since the 1989 collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, many in the mostly ethnic ... thankful for Washington’s hostility to Moscow during the Cold War, count themselves as loyal American ...

triggering the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War. The conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014 after a pro-Russian president was toppled in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022, triggering the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War.

The incursion has come at the cost of territory in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region ... into the largest conflict in Europe since the second world war. Ukrainians call the past 10 years ...

Proponents argue that this financial structure would allow Europe to boost military spending without significantly ... up to 20,000 American troops — initially deployed to NATO’s eastern flank in ...

The fight for Europe’s immediate security is now, and it is being contested in Kursk, Russia and along a 600-mile front in Eastern Ukraine.

Kyiv's troops are struggling to hold territory in Russia's Kursk region and may be forced to retreat, reports say.

Ukrainian troops are reportedly making gains along three parts of the front as Russian forces face a manpower shortage and poor command. One pro-Moscow military blogger has lamented how Ukrainian ...

Thousands of Ukrainian troops who stormed into Russia's Kursk region last summer in a shock incursion are nearly surrounded ...

Countries across Europe are rearming and looking at the risk posed by Russia, which has become an existential threat.