People rest in a metro station, being used as a bomb shelter, during a Russian drones attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Friday, ...

The following is the May 28, 2025 Congressional Research Service In Focus report, Russian Military Performance and Outlook.

Fifty-seven years later, the BMP-1 is obsolete. And that’s a big problem for the Russian army, which after a year of hard fighting in Ukraine is so desperately short of newer BMP-2 and BMP-3 ...

After its bizarre early failures with artillery, Russia is learning to overhaul its effectiveness with drones and civilian tech on the battlefield.

Since the start of this year, Russian courts have gotten 5,204 cases of military personnel accused of abandoning their positions without authorization, Russian opposition outlet Mediazona reported ...

If you would like to submit your own commentary, please send your article to opinions@military.com for consideration. Of all the post-invasion excuses given for the Russian army's failures in ...

Russian soldiers during a rehearsal for a military parade in Moscow in May 2024. A video of Russian soldiers driving an ATV down a road labeled the "highway of death" in Pokrovsk has gone viral.

Ukraine expects a major Russian offensive in the next few months as Moscow tries to capture more territory before any ceasefire agreement. The Ukrainian military calls the motorbike assaults ...

Most of his ire was reserved for the Russian military’s chief-of-staff, Valery Gerasimov. Popov said that when he complained about a lack of artillery support and other issues, “the senior ...

The USSR lost twenty-seven million people during WWII, and it is estimated around 8.7 million of these deaths were Russian military members. The Russian people suffered greatly during WWII ...

Here is what we can learn about the Russian military and its soldiers from the story of ‘Ivan’ and ‘Anna’ in The New York Times Magazine. Credit...Elinor Carucci for The New York Times ...

He was wrapped in bandages and 2,500 miles from his village in the Himalayas. But as he lay in a Russian military hospital, wounded in battle and surrounded by people speaking an alien language ...