Vladímir Putin

EL PAÍS accompanies a Ukrainian police special operations unit in a civilian evacuation operation in a town north of Kharkiv besieged by Russian troops

Russia is pressing its advantage in troops, munitions and air dominance in several towns in the provinces of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv to expand the front line and achieve strategic victories this summer

After meeting with Xi Jinping, the Russian president traveled to a province bordering Russia on the second day of his official visit to China

Zelenskiy visited the province where the Kremlin has opened a new offensive, describing the situation as ‘extremely difficult,’ but ‘under control’

Washington is looking to send Patriot batteries, says Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the end of his visit to Kyiv

According to open source monitoring analysts, Moscow’s troops have captured around 100 to 125 square kilometers of territory in recent days

Some sectors of the military celebrated the general’s departure and now questions are being asked over the position of chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, overall commander of Kremlin forces in Ukraine

EL PAÍS accompanies a unit of former front line soldiers now tasked with enlisting civilians in the province of Sumi

The announcement of Sergei Shoigu’s new role came as 13 people were reported dead and 20 more wounded in Russia’s border city of Belgorod where a section of a residential building collapsed

‘Russia is now going through a difficult, milestone period, the fate of the Motherland, its future, depends on each of us,’ the president told his troops

Kyiv’s state security service says that two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine were detained on suspicion of enacting the plan drawn up by Russia’s Federal Security Service

More than 60% say the EU should strengthen its support for Ukraine and favor a ceasefire with Moscow, according to a survey in all 27 member states

The Kremlin said any discussion of deploying NATO troops in Ukraine represented ‘a completely new round of escalation of tension; it is unprecedented, and of course it requires special attention and special measures’

Several NATO members accuse Moscow of deliberately jamming positioning signals

Three reporters have been arrested in three days, accused of discrediting the Russian army and association with the organization of deceased dissident Alexei Navalny

With Russia lurking and diplomatic channels failing, Washington is preparing to redeploy its troops from Nigerien soil while pressure from the Chadian army threatens to end its operations

The new subject is called “Fundamentals of Security and Homeland Defense” and joins others with which the Kremlin has militarized educational centers

The U.S. secretary of state ended his trip with a meeting with the Chinese president, who said the two countries should be ‘partners rather than rivals’

Several studies have found that nationalism is growing among millennials and Gen Z in countries such as Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, which show waning support for the EU and NATO

The initiative of a soldier and activist who died in combat led to a presidential decree to tackle gambling addiction among Ukrainian troops

The 47th Brigade has had four commanders in one year. Soldiers and officers talk to EL PAÍS about the force’s weaknesses, which is key to understanding Russia’s advance on the front

Russia’s minister of culture has announced plans to bring back this contest, which has intermittently brought musicians from the other side of the Iron Curtain (and some from this side) together to compete since the 1960s

An armed unit of dissident Russians fighting for their country’s ethnic minorities proposes attacking the Kremlin’s circle of power

EL PAÍS has compiled a list of words, places, people and acronyms that can help us understand a time of turbulent change, amidst the strain unleashed by geostrategic forces