The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to tolerate Soviet spheres of influence in central and eastern Europe. Many ...

Google Maps has been known to play it safe and attempt to keep both parties of a conflict on side. Following the 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea by the Russian Federation ...

The Trump administration, however, starts from the sixth, outside layer. It sees the Ukraine war as a minor front in a ...

Russia seized and annexed Crimea in 2014, with Russian-backed separatists taking control of parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk areas of the eastern Donbas region later that same year. (This area can be ...

Without historical context, which is buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell ...

And in 2014 after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Google Maps in Russia showed Crimea as part of Russian territory, but in Ukraine and other parts of the world, Crimea was shown with no ...

How are Russia and Ukraine placed after three years of fighting and with Donald Trump suggesting talks on ending the war ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it would review details from Washington about a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine ...

Military experts warn Trump's decision to stop arming Ukraine could increase risks of Russian expansion, affecting NATO ...