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.

To end the war with Ukraine, Russia could offer the U.S. access to rare earth deposits in Ukraine that it does not legally have the right to give away.

Russian soldiers ride on self-propelled artillery at an area in the Kursk region of Russia [Handout/Russian Defence Ministry Press Service via AP] Russian guided bombs struck a series of targets ...

A Russian missile struck a residential area in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, injuring 11 people, including two children, the governor of Dnipropetrovsk, Serhiy Lysak, said. Several apartment ...

The flawed argument about NATO expansion flows from two false premises. One is that in February 1990, when then-U.S.

At the height of their offensive, Ukrainian forces controlled some 500 square miles of Russian soil. Now they hold just a narrow strip of land along the border. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Ukrainian ...

Talks in Moscow with a U.S. special envoy indicated that Russia was keen to keep negotiating with the United States over Ukraine. By Anton Troianovski and Maria Varenikova Reporting from Berlin ...

Chechnya, a North Caucasus region of about 1.5 million people, has been described by some in Russia as a “Chechen Khanate.” Despite its relatively small population, Chechnya has played an outsized ...

At least 23 people were killed by Russian attacks in the last 24 hours. LONDON -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for "sufficient pressure on Russia" after a day of missile and ...

As allegations of attacks and other incidents blamed on Russia piled up across Europe last year, a team of AP journalists set ...

The Arctic is widely known as a strategic region. It is a unique geographical territory that connects Canada, the Kingdom of ...

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