Russian conscripts recruited for the spring conscription are likely to be forced to sign contracts to participate in the war ...

Even as the blasts were picked up on seismographs across Europe, Putin and the Russian Navy made no public acknowledgment of the catastrophe. In fact, the Russian president continued vacationing on ...

Vladimir Putin, Russian President has authorised the conscription of 160,000 men to strengthen Russia’s efforts in the ...

The Russian president is confident: his armed forces are in a very good position to "achieve all announced objectives" on the ...

Russian troops fighting in Kursk have reached the Ukraine border area, Moscow claimed on Friday. The Kremlin’s defence ...

KYIV - When Ms Mariia Pankova last exchanged messages with her close friend Pavlo in December, she had no idea that he was among the Ukrainian troops fighting in Russia’s Kursk region.

Kyiv's assault on Kursk in August took Russia, and the world, by surprise. It was the biggest attack on sovereign Russian territory since the Nazi invasion of 1941.

Ukrainian troops controlled approximately 350 sq km of Kursk Oblast at the time, rather than 100 sq km as they do currently. The distance they had to travel from point A to point B was about 15-20 km.

Ukrainian soldiers have lost ground in Russia’s Kursk region, but they are not surrounded and at the mercy of Moscow despite claims by both Vladimir Putin and President Trump, according to US ...