Invasions

Ukrainians have responded with remarkable dignity and courage, but there is little to romanticize one year into the Russian invasion.

Inna fled the war with her two young girls—but what would happen to her husband, her mother, and her other relatives?

How the Russian occupation transformed life in Melitopol.

When Russia attacked Kyiv, Ukrainians dropped everything to protect the city—and to ease one another’s suffering.

How a forty-year-old father of three joined other civilians to help thwart the Russian Army’s attempt to seize Kyiv.

The national identity the Russian President has helped promulgate—illiberal, imperial, resentful of the West—has played an essential role in his brutal invasion of Ukraine.

Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing—and the more people who leave, the faster it vanishes.

The aid offered by the West may help, but it cannot relieve Volodymyr Zelensky of the terrible predicaments he must manage in the weeks ahead.

After thwarting a quick victory for Russia, Ukrainians are galvanized—and facing a punitive assault.

At the most consequential hour in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a comedian has assumed the role of Winston Churchill.

The Russian leader’s assault on a sovereign state has not only helped to unify the West against him; it has helped to unify Ukraine itself.

Ukraine is in the position that it has so resolutely tried to avoid: trapped between the irreconcilable power struggles of other states.

The United States’ hasty, ill-planned withdrawal was one last favor for the Taliban.

“He explained to them, politely, that there were certain obligatory regulations, and they shot him.”

Will civil war hit Afghanistan when the U.S. leaves?