Ukraine at war

All of our coverage of the war in one place


Latest analysis

World leaders sit around a table. Putin looks frustrated, Zelensky clicks his pen and Trump falls asleep

Ukraine’s war is now longer than the first world war

The ghost of Versailles haunts Ukraine’s peace

Ukrainian strikes are inflicting pain deep inside Russia

Our modelling suggests they are doing even more damage than commonly assumed


A woman walks along a smoke-filled road beside heavily damaged buildings following Russian strikes in Kyiv.

Ukraine is now Europe’s war. Survival can’t be the only aim

America’s disengagement means it is now the old continent’s conflict to manage


Ukraine’s latest challenge is how to deal with hope 

Besides beating Russia, it must fight corruption and build democracy



Geopolitics

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the European Council building in Brussels, Belgium

Ukraine is not a charity case

Europe needs its help just as badly as the other way round

Charlemagne

How Ukraine and Europe got caught in a geopolitical lovers’ tiff

A testing moment for steadfast allies


Kirkjufell, Iceland - Famous mountain reflected in the calm waters of a nearby lake on a cloudy day.

Will the European Union’s next member come from the north?

Worried about trade and security, Iceland and Norway are warming to the EU


Peace negotiations give freezing Kyiv a hint of hope

Talks with Russia in Abu Dhabi could point towards a compromise


How four years of war have changed Russia

The fighting in Ukraine has reshaped everyday life



The military campaigns

A lone soldier stands in front of apartment buildings damaged in Ukraine.

Russia is stumbling on the battlefield  

As casualties soar in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin looks ever more beleaguered at home

A woman walks along a smoke-filled road beside heavily damaged buildings following Russian strikes in Kyiv.

Ukraine is now Europe’s war. Survival can’t be the only aim

America’s disengagement means it is now the old continent’s conflict to manage


A woman walks past a gallery of portraits of Russian service members involved in the country's military campaign in Ukraine, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 6, 2025

On the front lines, Russian soldiers pay officers to stay alive

The war against Ukraine has created a corrupt economy of blood money


Ukraine’s top drone commander wants to bleed Russia’s army dry

“Madyar” Brovdi has pioneered unmanned warfare methods NATO is yet to learn



Life in Ukraine

A member of the Ukrainian State Border Guard stands watch at the border crossing between Ukraine and Belarus

How a four-year onslaught has changed Ukraine

The border guards who faced Russia’s tanks were changed for ever, like their country

A Belarusian border guard with a service dog keeps watch at Novaya Guta crossing point on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border

At the last open crossing, Ukrainians flee Russia’s annexation

A checkpoint in Belarus provides a path from occupied territories back to Ukraine


Civilians clear debris after Russian shelling of a residential area in Druzhkivka, Ukraine

Ukraine now has the fortress belt it wishes it had in 2022

But American-led peace proposals threaten to hand it to Russia



Domestic Russia

Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia

His every move to preserve power accelerates decay, writes a former senior official in the Russian government

Victoria Bonya applies lipstick while on the red carpet.

The fashion influencer speaking truth to Putin

A viral Instagram video brings Russians’ wider grumbling into the open


A woman walks past a gallery of portraits of Russian service members involved in the country's military campaign in Ukraine, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 6, 2025

On the front lines, Russian soldiers pay officers to stay alive

The war against Ukraine has created a corrupt economy of blood money



Latest coverage

Metal workers in Ukraine

Europe

Ukraine is transplanting its industrial heart to the west

Soviet-built factory towns are in the wrong spot now that Russia is the enemy

World leaders sit around a table. Putin looks frustrated, Zelensky clicks his pen and Trump falls asleep

Europe

Ukraine’s war is now longer than the first world war

The ghost of Versailles haunts Ukraine’s peace

Europe

Ukrainian strikes are inflicting pain deep inside Russia

Our modelling suggests they are doing even more damage than commonly assumed

A portrait of Anders Fogh Rasmussen

By Invitation

Against Russia, Europe needs a peace-through-strength strategy

Talk of an envoy for negotiations is premature, writes Anders Fogh Rasmussen

A woman walks along a smoke-filled road beside heavily damaged buildings following Russian strikes in Kyiv.

Europe

Ukraine is now Europe’s war. Survival can’t be the only aim

America’s disengagement means it is now the old continent’s conflict to manage

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a military briefing in Ukraine.

Europe

Ukraine’s latest challenge is how to deal with hope 

Besides beating Russia, it must fight corruption and build democracy

A drone unit operator of a motor rifle regiment of Russia's 49th Combined Arms Army with the Dnepr Group of Forces prepares a reconnaissance drone equipped with drop-off munition for flight in the zone of Russia's special military operation

China

How China quietly helps Russia in Ukraine

Its firms send drones, nitrocellulose for rockets and more

Graphic detail

Russia is starting to lose ground in Ukraine

Our tracker suggests it has suffered its first sustained net loss since October 2023

A lone soldier stands in front of apartment buildings damaged in Ukraine.

Europe

Russia is stumbling on the battlefield  

As casualties soar in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin looks ever more beleaguered at home

Specialists collect oil products that washed ashore after a fire broke out following a Ukrainian drone attack in the Black Sea port of Tuapse

Europe

How a Ukrainian strike on a Russian oil hub caused catastrophe

Toxic smoke billowed and molten fuel flowed like lava

Ukrainian servicemen take part in a mission to protect streets for Russian drones in the frontline town of Druzhkivka

Europe

The War Room newsletter: Is Russia being out-droned?

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, invites a Ukrainian drone expert to write a guest edition 

Illustration of stars with a bear paw.

International

To fight Russia, Europe needs Ukraine

It is risky to let Ukraine into the EU. It’s more dangerous to keep it out