Russia, Ukraine and Kyiv
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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,
Russia launched a heavy drone and missile attack on Ukraine early on Friday, killing six people in Kyiv and two more in the south in strikes on energy facilities, apartment buildings and infrastructure,
A Ukrainian commander says the Russian army has overrun three settlements in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region.
Some 200 Kenyans are fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine and more could be recruited into the conflict, authorities say. Among them are former members of Kenya's security forces, according to Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister Musalia Mudavadi.
Marco Rubio’s comments suggest that there is little chance (at least for now) of high-level diplomacy between Russia and the U.S. ushering in a ceasefire, leaving Russian and Ukrainian forces to slog through another bitter and deadly winter on the front lines.
Friday's attack adds to growing anger and frustration among Kyiv residents as they face winter cold and darkness amid rampant power outages.
Kyiv. On November 14th, Russia launched a heavy drone and missile attack early on Friday, killing six people in Ukraine's capital. According to Ukrainian officials, Russian forces used 430 drones and 18 missiles, and Kyiv was responding with long-range strikes. It was one of the biggest attacks on the capital so far.
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.
A strike that killed six was the latest in a series of aerial assaults, many of which have targeted the power grid in an effort to deprive Ukrainians of energy as winter looms.
On an ill-advised stroll in the woods near the Russia-Ukraine front line, Ukrainian drone pilot Dmytro heard the sickening whine of a Russian quadcopter. He had been on the other side of this scene many times,
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that his troops had used long-range Ukrainian "Long Neptune" cruise missiles on targets in Russia overnight, adding that such strikes were getting more successful all the time.
Russia plans to manufacture up to 120,000 of its cheap and devastating glide bombs this year, a senior Ukrainian intelligence official said, including 500 of a new, longer-range version which can reach more towns and cities.