Russia launched a combined strike on Ukraine during the night of January 18. The occupiers fired four rockets and 39 drones, according to the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Telegram. Russia launched drone strikes from three directions: Millerovo,

A solitary Russian tank rolling toward Ukrainian lines in what one Ukrainian drone group called “a very unfortunate suicide” belies the perilous state of the Russian army as Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds toward its fourth year.

Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers and taken them prisoner, transporting them to Kyiv for questioning in what the country’s security services say is “ irrefutable evidence ” of Pyongyang ’s involvement in Russia’s war. Both soldiers were captured on 9 January in the Russian border region of Kursk, Kyiv said.

Russia has been steadily gaining in Ukraine but has focused its efforts on advancing in the country's eastern Donetsk region.

Ukraine's military now totals 880,000 soldiers, facing 600,000 Russian troops, Zelensky says Russia launches mass missile attack against Ukraine Ukraine, Russia have to make concessions to end war, Rubio says Ukraine brings back 25 people from Russian captivity,

Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine's army now has roughly 880,000 soldiers, while approximately 600,000 Russian troops are fighting against Kyiv's forces.

Ukrainian officials say Russia has launched a major ballistic and cruise missile attack on regions across Ukraine

Donetsk region. Russian shelling killed one resident and wounded seven others in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk oblast, or region, on Jan. 11. Kherson region. A 56-year-old woman died at the hospital on Jan. 11, succumbing to injuries sustained in last week's Russian drone strike on a bus station in the southern city of Kherson.

In addition to missiles, Ukraine has used long-range drones of its own build to attack Russian energy assets. A Ukrainian drone hit a terminal for gas condensate transshipment in the port of Ust-Luga, near Leningrad, on Saturday, causing a massive fire.

Russia has seized control of some of Ukraine’s prized lithium reserves since it launched its all-out invasion in 2022, potentially depriving Kyiv of a key economic resource.

Meanwhile, Russia claimed it took a village in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk. DW has more. Ukraine is questioning and providing medical treatment to two North Koreans it captured as part of its ...