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A weapon is mounted on the Lehit ground robotic system, developed by specialists of the International Legion under the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, during a demonstration in Ukraine on December 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
Russia
Russia
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a press conference on November 15, 2018, in Singapore. (Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers sit on a armored military vehicle in the city of Severodonetsk, Donbas region, on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)
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Smoke billows out from a damaged fuel depot in Odesa hours after a Russian missile strike on April 3. (James Barnett)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gives a virtual address on the 22nd day of the Russia-Ukraine war in Kyiv, Ukraine on March 17, 2022. (Getty Images)
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A territorial defense member signals to cars passing a checkpoint on April 3, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Alexey Furman/Getty Images)
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A Ukranian serviceman walks between rubble of the destroyed regional headquarters of Kharkiv on March 27, 2022. (Photo by Aris Messinis / AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian serviceman as seen on March 31, 2022 in Stoyanka, Ukraine. (Photo by Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images)
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Smoke billows over Lviv after a Russian cruise missile strike on an oil storage depot in the city, March 26, 2022 / James Barnett
Experts
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
