Russia is offering disabled and older recruits huge bonuses to shoot down Ukrainian drones. The fine print hides a nasty catch.

Days after President Donald Trump struck a diesel deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, his top general at NATO warned Moscow against attacking Europe.

MANILA, Philippines — A Ukrainian rescuer work inside a residential building damaged following a Russian missile attack in Zaporizhzhia, on October 17, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Daria Nazarova / AFP).

Pidlasa said that in the first nine months of this year Ukraine's budget lost over 49.5 billion hryvnias ($1.1 billion) in tax revenue because of Russian attacks ⁠that not only damaged property and goods, but disrupted logistics and shut shops and businesses for hours at a time.

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Donald Trump says: “Let [Russia] get rid of ISIS. What the hell do we care?” It is a fair question. What harm could come from letting Russian President Vladi­mir Putin take on this fight for us in Syria? The answer is: plenty. First, Russia is not ...

The painting “Moonlit Night” by famed 19th century maritime artist Ivan Aivazovsky is a study in tranquillity: two boats sailing calmly across a placid sea. But now the masterpiece is caught up at the centre of a storm between Ukraine and Russia as the ...

It was not meant to be Masha. Her husband, Danylo Yivzhenko, is the soldier in the family. Masha was a civilian, back home in Kyiv, worrying about her husband on the front line.

June 10, 2026: For centuries, Cossacks were mounted warriors living on the fringes of the expanding Russian empire. Most of them were Russian but, in southern Russia, the region known as Ukraine also produced Cossacks, which fought nations to the west like ...