Trump and Putin talked for an hour after the envoys' trip, the Kremlin says — both sides remain dug in on goals Ukraine war ...

Going dark hides tankers from Iranian targeting and from the commercial trackers at the same time, which is why public counts show a trickle while officials describe a steady nightly flow. Central ...

Georgia Gilholy reports on Ukraine’s deepest strike wave yet: a Yaroslavl refinery burning six hundred miles behind the front, a bomber hit at Engels, Moscow drivers hunting for fuel, and the Kremlin ...

August set a record for strikes on refineries, four of them among Russia’s ten largest. Petrol production and deliveries fell by roughly a fifth year on year, diesel by nearly a quarter, and S&P ...

The IRGC says a supertanker struck two sea mines and caught fire while crossing Hormuz without permission. CENTCOM’s answer came in capitals: FALSE. With a fifth of the world’s oil and gas once moving ...

Ukraine isn’t prepared for what might be coming. Beyond its interceptor shortage, the country still hasn’t secured sufficient backup power for critical heating and water infrastructure. Putin in 2023.

Stephen Silver aggregates the weekend’s resumed fire between Washington and Tehran: CENTCOM’s strike on IRGC minelaying crews and its flat denial that any ship has hit a mine, Jordan and UAE responses ...

Shay Bottomley reports on Putin’s decree authorizing state takeovers of drone-battered infrastructure, the Kremlin’s insistence that it is not nationalization, Ukraine’s dwindling Patriot stocks, and ...

“As long as Moscow has room to escalate with conventional weapons,” explained one expert, it has “little incentive to cross the nuclear threshold.” On Thursday, the U.S. business outlet Bloomberg said ...

European, Pacific and Southern Command all filed non-concurs on the deployment extensions — formal disagreement paired with compliance. The Pentagon says such objections are routine and disputes much ...

Reuben F. Johnson reads the open-source imagery of the latest Engels strike, which shows a Tu-95’s wing severed and burned, and lays out what the loss means: an operational fleet in the thirties, a ...

The Economist reports the Kremlin is worried about losing the public’s quiet acceptance of the war, with refinery strikes, e-commerce fires and internet restrictions eroding the appearance of ordinary ...