For centuries, Cossacks were mounted warriors living on the fringes of the expanding Russian empire. Most of them were Russian but, in southern Russia, the region known as Ukraine also produced ...

Russia's deputy foreign minister has said the country is prepared to use all means "including nuclear ones" for its security.

Stealth counterattack: Ukraine launched a secretive operation in Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts, aiming to retake land before Russian forces could fortify. Russian setbacks: Kyiv exploited ...

This is despite the group's public map showing a Russian advance of 14 square kilometers (about 5.4 square miles) in May, due ...

Top Ukrainian officials claim Moscow’s woes are growing as independent estimates suggest Russia’s economy is faltering.

End the war now, or be destroyed by your own citizens. That is the threat Volodymyr Zelensky set before Vladimir Putin in a ...

But while the U.S. has shifted its focus elsewhere, Ukraine has been more than holding its own. Its military has increasingly ...

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Kremlin pundit Boris Rozhin about the Russian military’s endless assault on the village of Mala Tokmachka in Ukraine’s ...

Ukrainian soldiers sit on infantry fighting vehicles as they drive near Izyum, eastern Ukraine on September 16, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.JUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images That's ...

For weeks, Ukrainian troops braced for an unfamiliar enemy: North Korean soldiers sent to bolster Moscow’s forces after ...

Moscow's senior representative in Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, confirmed that two people were wounded, railway traffic halted and ...