North Korean troops and weapons have played an unexpectedly crucial role in sustaining Russia’s grinding military campaign in Ukraine. In exchange, Pyongyang has been able to upgrade its outdated

Visual evidence from the battlefield suggests that heavy snow and rain weakened Ukraine’s counter-drone defenses, exposing its trenches to first-person-view drone attacks. Dense fog also allowed small Russian infantry assault groups to penetrate Ukraine’s defensive lines.

European leaders suggested their troops could touch down in Ukraine within a day of a hypothetical peace deal with Russia. French President Emmanuel Macron told radio outlet RTL that “reassurance force” made up of French,

From the front-line city of Pokrovsk in eastern Donetsk, to Zaporizhzhia in the south, there is little doubt that Russia is making advances. But, battlefield monitors suggest the picture is not quite so bleak for Ukraine as Trump and Putin suggest.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on Thursday repeated his demands that Ukraine pull out of the Donbas region in the east of the country, days ahead of a scheduled visit by a US delegation for peace talks to end the ruthless war.

Thousands of miles from the frontlines in Ukraine, where the Kremlin's war machine is steadily grinding forward, Russian forces face a potentially catastrophic situation in the West African nation of Mali as Al-Qaeda-loyal militants close in on the capital.

Ukraine hasn't previously stated openly that it uses the advanced U.S.-provided ballistic missile systems on targets inside Russia.

As of the morning of November 27, the Russians had lost 1,140 troops and two aircraft on the front line, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As for the aircraft, the Ukrainian Defense Forces attacked Taganrog,

Russia is threatening to reject President Donald Trump's Ukraine peace plan unless "key understandings" from his Alaska summit with President Putin are upheld.

French President Emmanuel Macron is reintroducing voluntary military service almost three decades after it was scrapped.

The president is optimistic that he can finally achieve one of his 2024 campaign goals, but the thorniest issues have yet to be resolved.