Ukraine war latest: RAF fighter jets scrambled to Russian ... - Sky News
15 hours ago · Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have spoken directly for the first time since 2022 - a move that has prompted anger from Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Ukrainian soldiers focus on keeping Russian advances at bay and …
1 day ago · Russia is increasingly hitting the Kharkiv region with unstoppable, building-leveling glide bombs and swarms of drones and chipping away at territory there. Its troops are advancing in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions. Up to 12,000 North Korean troops have been sent to Russia’s Kursk border region to help beat back Ukrainian forces there, according to U.S., South Korean and Ukrainian ...
Russia masses troops for Kursk offensive; Putin-Trump call denied …
4 days ago · Russia has massed “tens of thousands of troops” as part of a major effort to retake land in its Kursk region that was seized by Ukraine, according to the commander in chief of Kyiv's armed forces.
‘They’ve grown back’: How Russia surprised the West and rebuilt …
May 21, 2024 · ‘They’ve grown back’: How Russia surprised the West and rebuilt its force. By Noah Robertson. Tuesday, May 21, 2024. If the Kremlin keeps rebuilding its military faster than expected, it could...
Putin orders Russian army to expand to become the world's ... - NBC News
Putin on Monday ordered the regular size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active service members in a move that would make it the second largest in the world...
Russian troops fight desperate battles for Ukraine’s east ahead of ...
Oct 18, 2024 · (Al Jazeera) The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington, DC-based think tank, said Russian forces have conducted at least four large mechanised assaults since July. The latest took place...
Putin orders Russian army to become second largest after China's …
Sept 16 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the regular size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active servicemen in a move that would make...
Wallace: 97% of Russian army is in Ukraine - BBC
Feb 14, 2023 · UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says that 97% of the Russian army is now estimated to be in Ukraine. They are suffering "First World War levels of attrition", he tells the BBC, but rules out...
Ravaged by war, Russia's army is rebuilding with surprising speed
Feb 23, 2024 · Last week, a senior U.S. Pentagon official estimated that as many as 315,000 Russian soldiers have died or been wounded since the full invasion on Feb. 24, 2022 — essentially the entire army...
Russia boosts size of armed forces by 170,000 troops
2 Dec 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s military to increase the maximum number of troops by nearly 170,000 people, as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine continues into...