According to RM’s measurements using ISW data, from April 8, 2025, to April 7, 2026, Russia captured 1,897 square miles ...

Russia: +29,154 square miles. 13% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to half the U.S. state of Illinois). Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia presently controls, including Crimea and parts ...

Russia: +25,000 square miles. 11% of Ukraine. Area equivalent to Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut combined. Ukraine: 0. Ukraine has not taken any territory controlled by Russia before the ...

Russia: +27,089 square miles. 12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to the U.S. states of Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire combined). 2 Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia ...

Alexei Chepa, First Deputy Head of the Russian State Duma’s International Affairs Committee expressed hope that the United States will become preoccupied with the conflict in Iran and “forget” about ...

In that scenario [oil at $200 a barrel], sustained higher oil prices could plunge the world into a recession, raise borrowing costs, alter the outcome of ongoing wars, and shift the balance of ...

In that case, I think China would send a sharp message (as it did with Russia in 2022) that it strongly opposed any such action,” Ignatius said. Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan argue in FA that ...

This study examines how proximate conflicts shape public attitudes toward foreign countries. Using survey data from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan collected both before and after Russia's 2022 invasion of ...

We at Russia Matters have long believed that some of the most crucial questions related to U.S. policies toward Russia have no easy answers and deserve to be debated by knowledgeable experts. How ...