Ukraine’s General Staff claimed a strike on Rosneft PJSC’s refinery in Ryazan, one of the largest in Russia, while Moscow continued to target Ukraine’s energy system with missiles and drones ahead of winter.

Moscow’s attacks on gas supplies, the main source of warmth for most Ukrainian households, could plunge millions into the cold.

Ukraine’s top military commander says he has visited troops holding the front line in the key eastern city of Pokrovsk, which is besieged by a bigger Russian force, to coordinate operations in person.

Years of conflict have taken their toll and the war of attrition is continuing on the homefront - but Ukrainians are fighting back hard by trying to keep morale high

Nadia Pishko's childhood was about survival. Growing up in Lviv, Ukraine she experienced mass starvation in the 1930's. And during World War II, she and her family fled the country as the Germans and Russians closed in.

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.

The total combat losses of Russian forces since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine — from February 24, 2022 to November 15, 2025 — amount to approximately 1,157,400 personnel, including 1,

The scene looks almost post-apocalyptic. A convoy of Russian soldiers emerging from thick fog and moving towards the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. Some of the troops are riding motorcycles and mopeds;