KYIV - On December 16, Moscow declared that Kupiansk was under Russian control. The announcement was delivered with confidence, framed as another hard-won victory in eastern Ukraine. It was also ...

Russia’s method of grouping its soldiers into “battalion tactical groups” assumed that those soldiers would be better-trained than a potential adversary—an assumption that is clearly no longer the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the outskirts of Kupiansk on December 12, 2025, where he said Ukrainian forces are “getting the job done.” Ukrainian forces appear to have reclaimed ...

In this photo, taken Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025 and provided by Ukraine's 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade press service, a Ukrainian soldier looks searching for enemy's drones on his ...