The Russian Defence Ministry has claimed a decisive victory in the western Kursk region, announcing that its Northern ...

Russia and Ukraine say they each swapped hundreds of prisoners in the largest exchange since the Russian full-scale invasion ...

The temporary truce will be between 6 p.m. local time on Saturday and midnight on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces have secured positions in Russia’s Kursk region and continued ...

The interior ministry said the charges concerned funds that had been allocated for building defensive structures in the ...

Pressure has mounted on Ukraine in recent weeks to make a decision on whether to pull out of the Kursk region.

Russia on Saturday said it had retaken the penultimate village still under Ukrainian control in its Kursk frontier region, ...

The Russian authorities have arrested Alexey Smirnov, the former head of the country’s embattled Kursk region. Smirnov stands ...

The Units of the North military group has liberated the village of Oleshnya, according to the Defence Ministry.

Aleksei B. Smirnov, together with his deputy and other accomplices, was accused of embezzling money earmarked for building ...

Russia is close to regaining full control of its western Kursk region after pushing Ukrainian forces from one of their last ...

The former governor of Russia's Kursk region, parts of which were seized by Ukrainian forces in August 2024, was detained on ...