North Korean forces are experiencing mass casualties on the front lines of Russia’s war against Ukraine, with a thousand of their troops killed or wounded in the last week alone in Russia’s Kursk region, White House spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Friday. The number far exceeds the figure U.S. officials have previously provided. “It […]

White House National Security communications adviser John Kirby said Russia was treating North Korean troops as expendable by sending them on impractical ground operations in its war against Ukraine. It is clear that Russian and North Korean military leaders are treating these troops as expendable and ordering them on hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses, Kirby...

The deadly crash this week of an Azerbaijani passenger jet — with Russian air defenses as the suspected culprit — brings into focus a little-noticed aspect of the war in Ukraine: a battle zone that extends deep into Russia. Ukraine for months has been using domestically tooled drones to strike Russian targets hundreds of miles from the front lines in southern and eastern Ukraine, often...

A freight train used by Russia's war machine was targeted in the explosion, according to Ukraine's military intelligence.

There is no holiday season in Ukraine, where the fighting continues with no respite. While people celebrated Christmas and the holidays around the world, the Russian military was capturing an important settlement in the Donbas. Russian Progress in KurakhoveRussian forces have likely seized Kurakhove following two months of intensified offensive operations...

Andrii Yusov of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence said that Kyiv is increasing the range of its unmanned aerial vehicles.

Western officials have long been concerned about Moscows so-called shadow fleet, an assemblage of aged tankers created to covertly carry Russian crude oil around the world. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, […]

Ukraine said it had struck the site in Oryol Oblast where Shahed attack drones were being maintained and repaired.

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Officials say the large package of aid includes a significant amount of munitions.

The Biden administration is expected to announce the latest aid package in the coming days.

Ukraine's Ministry of Defense has authorized new unmanned robotic vehicles to be used on the frontlines in the war with Russia.

Ukraine has taken delivery of its first U.S. LNG cargo at a Greek terminal as Ukraine and Europe look to bolster their energy security by reducing their dependence on Russian gas, Ukraines largest private energy company, DTEK, said on Friday. The delivery of approximately 100 million cubic meters of gas, or 1 TWh of energy, onboard the Gaslog Savannah arrived at the Revithoussa LNG terminal ...

A template for ending the armed hostilities between Russia and Ukraine is finally on the table.The devil will be in the details.

Its been a busy Christmas season on the Russia-Ukraine front line. Its still a stalemate, whether it becomes frozen in time this year or not will change little. This year, the war has been different, with a sustained Ukrainian counteroffensive and air strike campaigns on Russian territory on the Kyiv side, and a continual increase in aggression on the Moscow side. There has been a fair amoun...

The first North Korean soldier taken prisoner of war by Ukrainian forces while fighting for Russia has died of his injuries, South Korean intelligence said Friday.