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The conflict between Kyiv and Moscow has become one of attrition, analysts say, with both sides paying a high price for small gains

How Beijing’s carefully calibrated support has helped sustain Moscow as it fights Ukraine—without crossing key red lines

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Professor Lawrence Freedman explains why NATO’s future and the island’s fate are secure despite heightening tensions above the Arctic Circle

The ‘gateway to the West’ has for years become a relative sanctuary from the onslaught on Ukraine’s frontline. But the city and region’s long history has seen it at the centre of countless conquests