Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China ...

On August 6, Ukrainian forces crossed from the Sumy region into Russia and swiftly seized a significant part of the Sudzhansky district in the Kursk Oblast. Over the ensuing weeks, Ukraine made a ...

Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets including ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article misspelled NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's name. Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to double the troops stationed along ...

During negotiations with the United States in Saudi Arabia, Russia reportedly demanded full control over the four Ukrainian regions it said it had annexed. A map by Newsweek shows Vladimir Putin's ...

President Trump reportedly lost patience with Ukraine war maps, pushing for a peace deal involving Donbas surrender. Deep ...