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The presence of North Korean soldiers alongside Russian troops in the Russian region of Kursk has not yet had a major impact on the course of the fighting, a Ukrainian military intelligence official told AFP on...

According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he and Russian President Vladimir Putin are the only two true leaders in the world today. “Now, there are only two leaders in the world. They are myself...

Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, Russian news agencies announced Sunday evening citing a Kremlin source, hours after he fled the country as Islamist-led rebels entered Damascus. The announcement comes as...

Experts warned that after cables were cut and navigation systems were jumbled, Russia has intensified its hybrid warfare methods in the Baltic Sea and NATO nations in the area should brace for a protracted struggle with...

Russian police, acting under laws that criminalise “LGBT propaganda,” raided a number of bars and nightclubs in Moscow early on Saturday, according to official television. According to accounts, cops searched club patrons’ documents during the raids...

Vladimir Putin, hours after Moscow hammered Ukraine’s electricity grid in an attack that left a million people without power, vowed Thursday to use Russia’s new hypersonic missile to hit “decision-making centres” in Kyiv. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr...

On Friday, Kyiv announced that more than 500 Ukrainian soldiers’ bodies had been returned by Russian authorities, the majority of whom had died in the eastern Donetsk region. Kyiv’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners...

According to officials, Russia killed one person and injured eight others when it launched more than a hundred drones at Ukraine overnight and early Friday. In recent days, the nearly three-year conflict has intensified dramatically, with...

According to a military statement cited by Russian state news media, Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov landed in North Korea on Friday. Belousov would speak with many North Korean “military and military-political officials” during his formal...

North Korea has ratified a landmark defence pact with Russia, state media reported Tuesday, deepening security cooperation that has seen Pyongyang send thousands of troops to help Moscow fight Ukraine. The agreement formalises months of tightening...