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Sudanese army soldiers take part in a military in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 23, 2025. (Getty Images)
Russia
Russia
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Members of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army prepare to fire a rocket propelled grenade while testing weapons systems on February 25, 2023, in Donbas, Ukraine. (John Moore/Getty Images)
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Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 27. 2023. (President of Ukraine via Flickr)
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Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev after signing the New START treaty in Prague on April 8, 2010. (Wikimedia Commons)
In the Media
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Wang Yi meets with Vladimir Putin in Mosow, Russia, on February 22, 2023. (Cao Yang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Russian diesel-electric Kilo class submarine Rostov-on-Don sails through the Bosphorus Strait on its way to the Black Sea on February 13, 2022. (Photo by Ozan Kose / AFP via Getty Images)
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Damage from a Russian rocket strike on a state administration building in Kherson, Ukraine, on December 19, 2022. (Wikimedia Commons)
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(Screenshot via YouTube)
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Vladimir Putin. (Kremlin)
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(Screenshot via Newsmax)
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Ukrainian soldiers fire an artillery shell on the frontline in Donetsk, Ukraine, on December 4, 2022. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Experts
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
