MOSCOW, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said on Friday that about 450,000 people had signed contracts to serve in the Russian army in 2024 and ...

KYIV, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Ukrainian air defences downed 50 of 72 drones launched by Russia overnight and attacked one of Russia's largest oil refineries, Ukraine's military said on Sunday.

The British navy said Wednesday that it is ramping up measures to protect its waters from secret Russian operations after identifying a Russian spy vessel in UK waters for the second time in weeks.

A Russian man was jailed for 17 years after being found guilty of passing classified information to a representative of a U.S. intelligence agency, the TASS state news agency reported on Thursday.

The servicemen of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine have released a video showing the results of combat work on the front line ...

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Kyiv is seeking to disrupt Russian military logistics and put pressure on the country’s economy by striking its oil industry. Russia says Ukraine shot down a military transport carrying 65 ...

TASS/. Russian forces carried out strikes on infrastructure facilities at Ukrainian military airfields and drone storage sites in 132 areas, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

TASS/. Ukrainian troops used civilians as a human shield when they were holding the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in Russia’s borderline Kursk Region, a Russian motorized riffle unit commander ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

The Russian army is failing to outflank Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast in an attempt to cut off the town's logistics routes, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Khortytsia group of forces, Viktor Trehubov, said ...

Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he wanted "unfriendly" countries to buy its gas with roubles. The move is understood to be aimed at boosting the Russian currency ...