Karlson is made up of 23 men, mostly in their 30s, from the Dnipro area. Prior to the Russian invasion, none had military experience.

A Russian deputy mayor and prominent veteran of Moscow’s war in Ukrain e was killed in an explosion in southern Russia early on Thursday, authorities said. Zaur Aleksandrovich Gurtsiev, who was ...

Ukrainian soldiers in a trench, where a unit of the Karlson Battalion were dug in to monitor Russian positions, in the Zaporizhzhia region, on Jan. 30. Nicole Tung for The New York Times ...

For three days, shells and mortars were “flying and whistling overhead, exploding around us,” Anton, a Russian soldier positioned south of Bakhmut, tells CNN. “We were jumping like rabbits ...

Russian propaganda is ramping up in a busy global election year, targeting American voters as well as elections in Europe and the Paris Olympics, according to intelligence officials, internet ...

HELSINKI—With President Trump and many other world leaders preoccupied with the war in Ukraine, some Europeans are growing alarmed about what the Russian army has been doing much more quietly ...

The Russian defense ministry gave few details, saying only that General Gudkov had been killed on Wednesday “during combat operations” in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine.

Soldiers in the Karlson unit carry a rocket that they later fired at a Russian position in the Kherson region on Oct. 27, 2022. (Heidi Levine/for The Washington Post) ...