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Russian President Putin's promise to keep conscripts out of combat in Ukraine raises concerns as families express anger over unpreparedness. Criticism moun...

Military authorities in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk have urged civilians to speed up their evacuation because the Russian army is quickly closing in on what has for months been one of Moscow’s key targets

Ukraine has denied a report from The Wall Street Journal that it was involved in the 2022 explosion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline transporting Russian gas to Europe. Germany has issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian suspect.

Secrecy was key in attack that has opened a new front in the war and left Russians looking leaden-footed

While Belarus’s Lukashenko has commented on the cross-border attacks, Central Asian nations stay mum.

The UK’s Ministry of Defence said Russian forces were initially disorganised following Ukraine’s lightning offensive

The Russian army closed in on the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk on Friday, a key logistics hub through which supplies are transported to troops and towns on the eastern front, while Kyiv urged civilians living there to speed up evacuations. In the meantime, Ukraine said its forces have continued…

A daring Ukrainian military push into Russia’s Kursk region has seen Kyiv’s forces seize scores of villages, attack air bases and force the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians in what has become the largest attack on the country since World War II

As the war enters its 903rd day, these are the main developments.

Russia is putting generative artificial intelligence to work in online deception campaigns, but its efforts have been unsuccessful, according to a Meta security report released Thursday.

Ukraine sets up military commandant’s office in Kursk; Russians grind on towards strategic Pokrovsk in Donbas. What we know on day 905