Are Russian forces planning to open a new front? Russia plans to create a new buffer zone along the border with Ukraine in the Vinnytsia region from the side of unrecognized Transnistria, Deputy Head ...

(Reuters) - Senior Kyiv officials said on Wednesday Ukraine was creating a "buffer zone" in Russia's Kursk region and plans to organise humanitarian assistance and evacuation corridors for civilians ...

Buffer regions are designed to keep dangerous ideas out and bad news in. As an aside, the buffer concept doesn’t seem to apply to the shared border with authoritarian Russia, and Beijing doesn’t mind ...