The Russo-Ukrainian War has been ongoing since 2014, with an independence movement in the Donbas region of Ukraine, but the conflict accelerated in 2022 when Russia launched a full-scale invasion. Since that time, tens of thousands have been killed, and the global economy thrown has been into turmoil. The United States and allies in Europe lent weapons and supplies to support Ukraine, an allied democracy under threat from an authoritarian autocracy. This volume of The Reference Shelf looks at the political and social impact of the war both for the Ukrainian people and around the world, providing examples of the conflict taken from domestic and international news media and journalists.