DA WEI is Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy and a Professor in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University.

The Russian government has decided to officially close 20 border crossing points with Ukraine established by a 1995 agreement, starting from 1 August. Ukraine's State Border Guard Service has emphasised that all crossing points on the border with the Russian Federation have been officially closed since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

Brutal punishments meted out to Russian deserters in the gruelling war with Ukraine are being shared in harrowing videos from the front lines.

Ukrainian officials say Russian strikes on the frontline region of Zaporizhzhia have killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more.

VLADIMIR Putin heinously hit a Ukrainian maternity ward and killed 17 in a prison strike overnight. The vile blitz comes as an ex-Kremlin leader has warned of war with the United States

As Volodymyr Zelenskyy stands as the face of Ukraine today, that was not always the case. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, his approval rating was down to just 26%. It was his leadership in the war that surged his popularity.

The last lifelines into besieged towns along the eastern frontline for Ukrainian troops, caught in a web of increasingly lethal and sophisticated drone warfare, rely on a technology millennia old: a fishing net.

The Ukrainian president’s move to strip the autonomy of anticorruption watchdogs prompts protests, forcing U-turn.