A Ukrainian soldier plays with a dog as he has a rest in the freed territory in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine on Sept. 12, 2022. Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia.
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Russian forces have clearly retreated in Ukraine, and it appears Vladimir Putin may be losing control of the war. What’s next?
Russia moved significant numbers of troops and equipment south to met the Ukraine offensive in the Kherson region.
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The success of Ukraine’s recent offensives have shown Ukraine can defeat Russia militarily, as long as it has sufficient support form the west.
Ukrainian soldiers are counterattacking in the east of the country.
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Vladmir Putin has a new problem. His invasion of Ukraine is not just bogged down. It’s going backwards.
Ordinary Ukrainians are committed to defending their country’s sovereignty.
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What ordinary Ukrainians think about the cost of war against Russia.
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
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While most daily newspapers presented the conflict as black and white, weeklies presented readers with a more sophisticated and nuanced take.
New Tory leader and Brith Prime Minister Liz Truss.
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It’s in Britain’s interests to help the African continent reach its potential.
Vladimir Putin appears larger than life on screen as he addresses an audience at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on the eighth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea in March 2022.
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There’s no question the Russian population is subject to a Russian media largely loyal to the Kremlin. But that doesn’t mean Vladimir Putin lacks genuine supporters.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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The global realignment triggered by the end of the Cold War and Gorbachev’s reforms ushered in a period of transition on the African continent.
A Ukrainian soldier inspects a residential building after it was damaged following a Russian shelling attack In Kyiv.
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Despite having superior military forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin has found Ukrainian resistance much tougher than expected. A West Point military expert looks at the future of the war.
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For over a decade, Putin has been systematically destroying Gorbachev’s historic achievements.
‘Run for your lives’: Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russian troops ahead of Ukraine’s southern offensive.
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Mikhail Gorbachev in 2007 with the editor of independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, holding a book about the murdered reporter Anna Politkovskaya.
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Glasnost was hailed as one of the Soviet leader’s great achievements. But it was a fragile freedom and soon overturned by Vladimir Putin.
Warm working relationship: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
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The INF treaty signed by Gorbachev and US president Ronald Reagan prohibited medium-range missiles.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a group of 150 business executives in San Francisco in June 1990.
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While Mikhail Gorbachev was feted in the West — he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 — he was widely despised in Russia by those both mourning and celebrating the end of Soviet power.
Liberator, failed reformer or architect of Soviet demise?
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Mikhail Gorbachev died at 91 on Aug. 30, 2022. A historian of the Soviet era assesses his impact and the consequences of his failed attempts to reform state socialism.
Mikhail Gorbachev addresses American business executives in 1990.
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Monica Attard witnessed the death throes of the USSR – and the birth of a brave new world – as the ABC’s Russia foreign correspondent. In 2022, a return to an Orwellian regime looms.
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Like other tragic reformers in history, Gorbachev’s chief legacy is to remind us about what might have been, rather than what subsequently transpired.
Preparing for the push: a Ukrainian soldier hands an automatic rifle to a comrade.
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Ukraine says it will push Russian troops out of the country. This offensive could be critical to that aim.
In July 2022, Iran provided the Russian military with training for using Iranian-produced weapons, including the Shahed-129 drone, displayed here at a 2019 military show in Tehran.
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There’s an unexpected beneficiary of Russia’s war on Ukraine.