NPR's Michel Martin talks to Mark Jannetta, a U.S. Army veteran, who was wounded when he went to fight in the war in Ukraine, about the importance of U.S. aid for that country's fight against Russia.

President Trump is breaking with decades of U.S. policy toward Russia. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Elina Ribakova, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, about ...

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the economic sanctions imposed by the United States and other Western countries, quote, "akin to a declaration of war," unquote.

Following the recent success of Ukrainian forces, NPR's Michel Martin asks retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman about what he thinks will happen next in Russia's war against Ukraine.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Russia has launched massive drone and missile assaults on Ukrainian cities over the weekend. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: The attacks happened over the past three nights, even as the ...

Why Russia's military appears to be struggling in Ukraine NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist David Volodzko about the factors that could explain Russia's military failures in Ukraine.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst about how this latest round of U.S. aid will affect the situation in Ukraine — on and off the battlefield with Russia.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Yesterday, the U.S. and its allies ramped up their sanctions against Russia when they announced that certain Russian banks would be shut off from SWIFT.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: With the deposed Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, now exiled in Moscow, Syria's new leadership is still taking shape. That's in part because the rebels who toppled the regime ...

Ukrainian forces now control more than 400 square miles of Russian territory Ukraine says it has solidified its control over parts of Russia's Kursk region. NPR's Michel Martin talks to retired ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks to attorney Lena Zezulin about growing calls for Russian Orthodox Church outposts abroad to break from the Moscow-based church and its support of the war in Ukraine.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: While climate policy may be a way to challenge Russia in the future, climate change is threatening that country now. That's especially true of its permafrost, that soil that ...