Russia’s Defense Ministry is claiming that its forces have captured the coal mining town of Toretsk, their latest ...

Ukrainian forces fighting around Velyka Novosilka claim its Russian takeover will amount to nothing more than a flag-raising ...

Russian forces are slowly tightening the noose around the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a key logistical hub whose main ...

Moscow's forces have captured Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region and about to gain Toretsk, according to reports.

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A destroyed Russian tank sits on a roadside near the town of Sudzha, Russia, in the Kursk region, 16 August 2024 ...

Colonel Ants Kiviselg, Head of the Estonian Defence Forces' Intelligence Centre, has reported that after a limited success in Donetsk Oblast, Russia began reorganising its forces. Source: Kiviselg ...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that a Russian bomb destroyed the school building "even though dozens of civilians were there". The school is located in a part of Kursk held by Ukrainian ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.

All of the city's roads radiate outward from the square, which is also home to the Kremlin, the residence of the Russian presidency. The Kremlin is more like a fortress than a residence ...

Flush with canals and built around water – the city curves around the Gulf of Finland ... Stop by the area's Russian Museum, which houses the world's largest collection of Russian art, or ...