Gould-Davies, a Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies who has served as the U.K. ambassador to Belarus, wrote recently that foreign-policy setbacks and economic challenges have put Russia in a bind,

With Russian forces gaining slowly on the battlefield, Ukraine hopes its long-range drone campaign will help persuade Vladimir V. Putin to change course.

Ukraine's government projects GDP growth of 2% for 2026 and 5% for 2027, a sharp contrast with Russia, where expansion slows each month, according to Ukraine's Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture,

Almost 900 miles from Ukraine’s borders, a fire erupted at a Russian oil refinery on Saturday. The blaze – a result of a strike by Ukrainian long-range drones, according to sources in the country’s security services – was the third at the facility in the last month alone.

Ukraine's strategy, targeting critical infrastructure like the Druzhba pipeline and Blue Stream, was Russia's vulnerability, pushing the nation towards an unprecedented economic crisis, said Kremlin mouthpiece Maksim Kalashnikov.

The European Council has agreed to reduce and eliminate duties on a range of Ukrainian agricultural products, paving the way for the first significant update to tariffs under an EU-Ukraine trade agreement since it was adopted in 2016.

Three and a half years in, Russia has failed militarily, even if Ukraine is bleeding, too. Mr Putin has not even managed to overrun Kharkiv, just 35km from the border, let alone Kyiv. The flow of goods through Ukraine’s deep-sea ports surpasses pre-war volumes.

The Ministry of Economy forecasts Ukraine’s GDP growth at 2.5% next year, despite the World Bank lowering its projection to 2%. — Ukrinform.

On the sidelines at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, President Trump met with multiple heads of state including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Argentine President Javier Milei.

Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones on April 24, 2025 in the deadliest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year.