Countless pundits have denigrated Ukraine’s Kursk offensive, and nearly all the criticism has focused on geography: Sudzha, ...

Russia and Ukraine are bound together by history and geography — but Putin sees danger in that symbiosis, convinced that "the emergence of a genuinely independent, democratic and Western-leaning ...

Geography is at the heart of this story. Ukraine's position between Russia to the east and countries such as Poland and Romania to the west means it straddles both the European and Russian spheres ...