An annual review of the global military situation says Russia’s stockpiles of Cold War-era weapons and larger population have ...

The Times interviewed Russian soldiers who said they face a brutal fight to dislodge determined Ukrainian forces from a ...

For most of 2024 and into 2025,  Ukraine’s biggest issue on the battlefield has not been firepower but manpower — ...

“If Russia loses this time around ... would be the “last push” for Ukraine. Earlier in December, Putin denied reports about a second wave of mobilization, saying it was “pointless ...

Before 2022, Russia’s military boasted of being second only to the United States. Now — as the bitter joke goes — it’s the second strongest in Ukraine. Donald Trump wants to negotiate an ...

As we reported earlier, Donald Trump has suggested that Ukraine "may or may not be Russian someday" (see 8.17am post). We've been keeping an eye on reaction in Ukraine, where the comments are ...

A senior Russian politician has said Moscow is yet to receive a good offer to start peace negotiations - but it appears to have made its opening gambit. Follow the latest on the war in Ukraine ...

Meanwhile, Ukraine faces troop shortages and problems with mobilization and the high ... Syrskyi also said on Monday that around 150,000 Russian troops had been killed last year and that 2024 ...

Russia calls the city, which had a pre-war population of around 30,000 people, by its Soviet-era name of Dzerzhinsk, and says Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, where it is located, is now part of ...

Russian President ... are not planning a new mobilization, and say the Russian army is being developed without coercion. Andrey Kartapolov, a member of the State Duma’s defense committee, told the ...

This year's annual military exercises for reservists are taking place earlier than usual in Russia, prompting debate on social media that another mass mobilization could be in the cards.