Key Takeaways Senior officials in Tehran have signaled that they seek to use the Strait of Hormuz and energy flows around it as points of leverage that Iran can use after the war to extract concessions and secure strategic aims. They have also signaled that they will not accept a …

The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) claimed that Russian forces seized the entirety of Luhansk Oblast for the third time over the course of Russia’s full-scale invasion, even though Russian forces have controlled most of Luhansk Oblast since October 2022. The Russian MoD claimed on April 1 that Russian forces …

The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has boosted Russia’s oil revenues and its ability to ramp up its own war with Ukraine, but concern is mounting among Russian elites about relations with the Trump administration. Russia has emerged as an early beneficiary of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, aided by higher …