Tag: Ukraine

It was just after midnight on June 10, and Kyiv’s curfew had just begun when news of incoming rockets and drones buzzed on our phone screens. I was sitting on ...

Despite plenty of threats and ominous social media posts, the Trump administration has not taken an aggressive stance on sanctioning Russia yet. It has been more than three years into Russia’s ...

Foreign policy has loomed unusually large in U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term. During his first 100 days in office, Trump claimed big successes—but the American people weren’t necessarily convinced. ...

Drones are changing the very nature of warfare. After playing a salient role in the recent conflict between India and Pakistan, unmanned aircraft stunned the world in Operation Spider’s Web ...

Operation Spiderweb—Ukraine’s dramatic and stunning drone attack on air bases deep inside Russia—illustrates several themes that have characterized the war ever since Russia launched its illegal invasion in 2022. It ...

Ukraine’s battlefield prospects against Russia clearly dimmed when the Trump administration took office. Trump has consistently signaled that, at the very least, military aid resembling anything close to that the ...

This month, we’re taking madcap rides through Ukraine and Nigeria, where reckless decisions drive familial turmoil and quickly spiral out of control. Endling: A Novel Maria Reva (Doubleday, 352 pp., ...

In the fall of 2022, Kyiv faced a difficult problem. The Russians were bombarding Ukrainian cities with swarms of Iranian Shahed drones. The challenge was spotting them, since their low ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. It’s already June, which means that the countdown to this month’s NATO summit has begun. Both of us will be on the ground ...

During the night of June 1, Ukraine launched an audacious, long-planned drone operation deep in Russian territory, targeting Moscow’s strategic bomber fleet at multiple bases. Ukraine said the mission—codenamed “Spiderweb”—hit ...