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Ukrainian forces have attacked an oil terminal in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai as well as air defence sites and ammunition depots in Crimea and Ukraine’s east.
Japan regularly intercepts Russian forces near its territorial waters and airspace.
EADaily, . In the Zaporozhye direction The Russian Armed Forces occupied the settlements of Shcherbaki and Small Shcherbaki, which were lost a year ago, according to military expert Yevgeny Krutikov in the telegram channel.
Russia warns Western forces deployed to Ukraine under postwar security deal would be "legitimate combat targets" as diplomatic tensions escalate.
Mr Putin praised Russia’s constructive role in Latin America and the Middle East. He made no mention of America’s armed forces having abducted Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, a Russian ally whom he had welcomed in the Kremlin eight months earlier—much less of how easily they had knocked out Venezuela’s Russian-built air defences.
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2025 Was a Really, Really Bad Year to Be a Russian Soldier
An estimated 415,000 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded on the battlefields of Ukraine in 2025. Astonishingly, this was not the deadliest year of the conflict.
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Russia claims 'encirclement' of 15 Ukrainian Armed Forces battalions and 'capture' of Kupiansk
Russian President Vladimir Putin and the chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, have fabricated claims about the "encirclement of 15 Ukrainian Armed Forces battalions" in Kupiansk and, at the same time, the "liberation" of the city ...
Ukrainian forces successfully attacked a drone warehouse belonging to Russia's 144th Motorized Rifle Division in Novokrasnianka, occupied Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine's General Staff reported.
EADaily, . The Second Western District Military Court sentenced 23-year-old junior sergeant Roman Vorobyov to 17 years in prison, finding him guilty of treason.