Russia is set to spend 6.3% of its GDP on defense this year — a post-Cold War high.

Ukraine’s once-formidable advantage in drone warfare appears to be eroding along parts of the front line. This degradation ...

Recent satellite images taken by Planet Labs in May and June 2025 reveal large-scale construction at five secret nuclear ...

The Russian defense industry has involved hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren in weapons development. Drones and missiles are of particular interest to Russia’s defense sector. Programs for ...

Russian schoolchildren are recruited into drone development and other military programs through seemingly harmless video ...

Russia now controls more than two-thirds of Ukraine’s Donetsk region — the main theater of the ground war. Russian forces ...

Russian forces are pushing hard to encircle the strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after capturing a string of villages to its south and east, and over 100,000 soldiers are ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She ...

Maxar Technologies is monitoring the military developments surrounding tensions and cites several new Russian deployments in Crimea and in western Russia near the Ukraine border.

"Strengthening air defense capabilities is clearly an urgent priority for Iran at the moment," expert Hongda Fan told ...

Indeed, The Heritage Foundation’s 2021 Index of U.S. Military Strength judges that “Russia remains the primary threat to American interests in Europe and is the most pressing threat to the ...

Russia's urge to catch up to U.S. and China's AI dominance may cause it to take unnecessary risks, though current doctrine stresses the need to keep humans in the loop on decisions.