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Ukrainian special forces carried out a lethal revenge attack on Russian paratroopers, accused of committing war crimes. The daring operation took place deep inside Russia in the southwest city of Stavropol, home to the military base of the 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment. The paratroopers have been involved in active combat duties in Ukraine since 2014 and played a key …

Ukrainian drones have sown chaos and panic across Russia after a series of lethal strikes caused massive damage to energy infrastructure and military-industrial sites. The devastating attacks occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning in Dagestan and Mordovia. Ukraine has stepped up its aerial bombardments of Russia in an attempt to disrupt supplies of fuel and ammunition to Putin’s …

British Storm Shadow cruise missiles were used by Ukraine to penetrate Russian air defences and attack one of the invading country’s facilities, it has been revealed. According to the Ukrainian military, the long-range air-to-air missiles were launched to strike a chemical plant in the Bryansk region that is believed to be making items vital to Russia‘s war effort. The operation, …

Hundreds of Russian troops have reportedly been left stranded and starving on a series of islands called the “death zone”. These territories on the Dnipro River, south of Kherson, have become a front line since Ukraine liberated the city in 2022. Now, the river’s right bank is controlled by Ukraine and the left by Russia. Ukrainian Colonel Oleksandr Zavtonov revealed …

North Korean soldiers reportedly shot at Russian military vehicles in the Kursk region close to the Ukrainian border, in another friendly fire fiasco. Pyongyang is believed to have sent around 15,000 troops to help bolster Putin’s army in the western region. This followed a pact signed last June between Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un, whereby the two …

Russia’s top diplomat Sergey Lavrov and US counterpart Marco Rubio discussed preparations for a coming summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in a call on Monday, both sides said. Rubio “emphasised the importance of upcoming engagements as an opportunity for Moscow and Washington to collaborate on advancing a durable resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war”, Tommy Pigott, principal deputy spokesman …

US President Donald Trump reiterated on Sunday that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told him India would stop buying Russian oil, while warning that New Delhi would continue paying “massive” tariffs if it did not do so. “I spoke with Prime Minister Modi of India, and he said he’s not going to be doing the Russian oil thing,” Trump told …

Russia carried out a major strike on a coal mine in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on Sunday, leaving 192 workers trapped underground, according to Ukrainian energy firm DTEK. According to the most recent information from the Ukrainian National News agency, all of them were successfully rescued, and none of the workers were injured. DTEK, Ukraine’s largest privately owned energy company, has repeatedly …

A Polish court on Friday blocked the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in the 2022 attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines and ordered his release, a ruling that was welcomed by Poland’s prime minister. Volodymyr Zhuravlov, 46, was arrested near Warsaw on September 30 on a German warrant. German prosecutors have described him as …

With a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire holdings so far, Mr Trump is redirecting his efforts to resolving the Ukraine conflict through potential long-range arms to Kyiv. Ending wars in Ukraine and Gaza was a cornerstone of Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign, during which he criticised Biden’s management of both. Despite past frustrations in urging Putin for direct Zelensky talks, Mr Trump now …