A new wave of North Korean troops, already numbering 8,500 in Russia, contains a drone unit that could attack targets inside Ukraine, according to a senior Ukrainian intelligence official.

By Anna Voitenko KYIV, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 103 prisoners of war each, officials from both sides said on Wednesday, with Ukrainian intelligence saying another swap was expected before the end of the month.

Vladimir Putin’s war has come to his favorite vacation resort in explosive fashion. Sochi, a Black Sea city, is known for its beach resort, which before the war was crawling with domestic tourists. It was a favorite of the Kremlin dictator,

Volodymyr Zelensky is fighting a war on several fronts. Russia is ramping up its missile attacks with almost nightly bombardment of Ukrainian cities. A blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports is choking its grain exports with a devastating effect on its agricultural economy.

Ukraine’s bombing of a major Russian space center for assembling rockets is just the latest in its barrage of missile and drone strikes on the Kremlin’s aerospace labs.

Boris Nadezhdin has been in France just over a week, still reeling from his hasty exit from Russia after a sudden summons from its powerful Investigative Committee.

A senior executive at Sberbank, Russia's largest retail bank, warned that withdrawals for all of 2026 could approach twice the amount withdrawn during that first year of the war.

Russia faces mounting casualties and economic strain from its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite this, some observers warn of another possible Russian mobilization.

Two large and heavily armed states locked in an existential armed struggle. Hundreds of thousands of casualties. Mass mobilization. Systematic long-range strike campaigns against the enemy's economy

The Kremlin sounded the alarm on its deteriorating finances earlier this year, just as its war on Ukraine pivoted dramatically against Russian forces. According to a letter seen by the Financial Times, Russia's finance ministry estimated in Feb. that ...

The former defense minister, whose firing sparked weeks of protests, said Ukraine needed to find a way to hold elections despite the prolonged war with Russia.