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This is an archive of the Ukraine live updates blog from February to March.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's plan to boost defense spending could remake Germany's beleaguered military into the strongest armed forces in Europe — an idea that has met resistance in the past.

We're using new geopolitical and military terms — and resurrecting and revising old ones — to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a conflict in which information is treated as another battlefield.

Other addresses to Congress by foreign leaders have paled compared to Winston Churchill welding with his words the alliance that overcame Adolph Hitler, until Volodymyr Zelenskyy's this week.

Negative campaigns are aggravating South Korea's already severe political divide as presidential elections approach on Wednesday.

Experts have roundly dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin's suggestion that Nazism is prevalent in Ukraine. Still, they worry the war may strengthen neo-fascist groups in both countries.

"The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out," the South Carolina Republican said. Democrats and Republicans denounced the suggestion.

While Russian artists and institutions grapple with how they are viewed internationally, American cultural organizations make what amounts to foreign policy decisions.

Putin's claim that he is fighting a Nazi regime in Ukraine is a falsehood based on historical memory.

State Sen. Wendy Rogers, a Republican, spoke at a conference organized by a far-right group and later used antisemitic tropes to describe Ukraine's leader.