Moscow has intensified its attacks on Ukrainian forces battling to hold an enclave in Russia's Kursk region and increased pressure in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine's top army commander said on Tuesday.

Russia says five people have been killed in a Ukrainian strike in the western Kursk region. Ukrainian officials reported earlier that Moscow had launched a fresh missile attack on Kyiv, damaging a building hosting several embassies.

Six people, including one child, were killed on Friday in a Ukrainian missile attack on the town of Rylsk in Russia's Kursk region, the acting governor, Alexander Khinshtein, said.

Reclaiming Kursk is high on Moscow's agenda but comments by Valery Gerasimov failed to address the continuing presence of Ukrainian troops on Russian soil.

Ukraine is reporting at least 30 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded over the weekend around several villages on the front in Russia’s Kursk region. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that Russia is using North Korean troops to ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that Russia had begun deploying North Korean soldiers to storm Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region. He spoke after Russian authorities said their firefighters were battling a blaze in the western ...

Over 3,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded fighting in Russia’s Kursk against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed. South Korea has also claimed 1,100 casualties of North Korean soldiers since entering the war in December.

Baba Vanga also foresaw major medical advances in cancer and Alzheimer's treatment, which saw a great progress in this year.

Back then, in the first weeks of the war, Russia and Ukraine conducted several rounds of talks in person and online aimed at ending the conflict; although a framework for peace called the Istanbul Communiqué was drawn up,

Secretive North Korea has one of the world’s largest militaries, with 1.28 million active soldiers, but unlike in Russia, the Korean People's Army (KPA) has no recent experience of combat. Pyongyang’s army is “thoroughly indoctrinated but with low readiness,” says Mark Cancian, from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

U.S. intelligence agencies, in a report cited by The New York Times, assert that the move was initiated by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, with Russian President Vladimir Putin accepting the offer promptly.