VLADIMIR Putin has thrown a ring of steel around exiled dictator pal Bashar al-Assad as the tyrant marks his first ...

Russian forces have reportedly seized their first village in Ukraine's east-central Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Russian state media and war bloggers, marking a new advance in the ongoing ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian troops have taken control of a village in eastern Ukraine which is close to a lithium deposit after fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces, a Russian-backed official said on ...

The village of Dachne in the southern part of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast appears to be contested, according to the Finnish Black Bird Group open-source intelligence collective. The Russian Defense Ministry ...

Ukraine denied that it had been pushed out of the region and said that its military operations inside Russia were continuing. By Ivan Nechepurenko Paul Sonne and Marc Santora Russia’s top military ...