Seven weeks into Moscow’s war against independent Ukraine, the determined resistance of that country’s armed forces and its population in general — as well as demoralization wracking the Russian troops and ineptness of their officer corps — brought Russian President…
After over a month of stubborn resistance by Ukrainian forces and volunteers against Moscow’s invasion, two-thirds of Russian ground forces have withdrawn from around the capital, Kyiv, and from Chernobyl, Chernihiv, Sumy and numerous other smaller towns. Russian President Vladimir…
Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine has been stalled in a number of areas by fierce Ukrainian armed opposition, along with spirited protests in occupied cities. After raining destruction on civilian populations to try to hammer them into submission, Moscow is stepping…
Moscow’s war against Ukrainian independence has opened rifts with the former Soviet republics in Central Asia whose governments have traditionally followed the Russian rulers’ lead. The capitalist rulers in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — bounded by Russia, China,…
Moscow’s invasion has largely stalled as it faces determined resistance from Ukrainian troops and civilians, including in towns in the south that Russian forces occupy. The one city on the edge of being taken is Mariupol, surrounded and facing relentless…
Moscow’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is shaking the capitalist world order, increasing the challenges facing the U.S. rulers as they fight to maintain their supremacy. Capitalist powers across the globe are strengthening their own military forces to defend their national…
Two weeks into their invasion of Ukraine, Moscow’s forces are widening their assaults — slaughtering hundreds and devastating cities, leading to a fast-growing refugee crisis. At the same time, President Vladimir Putin’s forces confront courageous resistance all across the country,…
Unleashing a deadly bombardment on Ukrainian urban centers, the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is slaughtering thousands. Overwhelmingly outgunned and outmanned, Ukrainian troops and civilians are mounting courageous and tenacious resistance that has so far prevented Moscow’s forces from…
Russian President Vladimir Putin Feb. 21 declared that the Moscow-backed “People’s Republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk set up in Ukraine in 2014 were independent countries and ordered Russian troops to go in as “peacekeepers.” The Kremlin’s invasion is backed by…
Moscow’s military buildup and menacing war exercises in the region threatens Ukrainian sovereignty and independence and pose the potential of a ground war with devastating consequences for working people throughout Europe. Russian President Vladimir Putin is using the German rulers’…
