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Intelligence operation between Poland and Ukraine has led to the arrest of a Polish citizen allegedly conducting hostile reconnaissance.

Russia ramping up pressure on exhausted Ukrainian forces to prepare to seize more land this spring and summer as muddy fields dry out.

Russian state media asserts the country’s armed forces shot down at least eight “Ukrainian balloons” in three days this week.

Ukraine´s air force claimed Friday it shot down a Russian strategic bomber, but Moscow officials said the plane crashed due to a malfunction.

Two German-Russian dual citizens accused of membership of a pro-Kremlin terrorist organisation and planning bombings have been arrested. 

The exact cost of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine remains opaque and hard to assess. Still, claims continue to vary wildly, from as little as 31,000 Ukrainian dead according to Kyiv, to as many as half a million Russian “casualties”. There

Argentina signed a deal Tuesday worth about 2.1 billion kroner ($300 million) to buy 24 of Denmark´s aging F-16 fighter jets.

Ukraine is facing a potential outright defeat by the Russians this year, the former commander of the UK’s Joint Forces Command has warned.

Ukrainian’s top military commander admitted that the situation alongside the eastern front with Russia has “significantly worsened” amid renewed push from Moscow’s forces.

Ukraine is to become a giant testing ground for a laser weapon which, if successful, promises to radically alter the economics of warfare.

At least 10 people died after shelling struck a Russian-occupied town in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, a Kremlin-installed official said.

Russia appears to be stepping up its campaign to deprive Ukraine of electricity, totally destroying a large power plant. 

Volodymyr Zelensky said he extended an invitatitation to Donald Trump to visit Ukraine to convince him to back more American military aid.

Switzerland’s government it hopes that Russia might join in the peace process one day.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) challenged his Republican colleague, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), to a debate regarding his “Ukraine first policy.”

The head of the U.N.´s atomic watchdog condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Plant.

Officials at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant said that the site was attacked Sunday by Ukrainian military drones.

Peter Pellegrinim a close ally of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico and sceptic of the Ukraine war, will become Slovakia’s sixth president.

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff said there will be no “compromises” with Russia despite the failures of the counteroffensive to recapture territory last year.

Russian forces overnight attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles, killing at least six people and wounding 11 more in Kharkiv.

The Russian bordering Nordic nation of Norway announced the most significant change in its defence in modern times.

Over a dozen military jets were destroyed or damaged in a massive drone strike against a Russian airbase overnight, Kyiv claims.

German police are facing a serious uniform shortage — the war in Ukraine is blamed — and officers have gone trouserless to make the point. 

NATO leaders have already said that while they want Ukraine to join, it doesn’t meet eligibility — including not being at at war and occupied.

Russian troops launched waves of Shahed drones against the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight, killing four people.

Ukraine has cemented yet another ‘NATO-lite’ deal with an alliance member, inking a ten-year agreement with Finland.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill to lower the conscription age to 25 in a bid to expand the ranks of his military.

Norway has become the latest European state to look again at its conscription programme, pushed by Russian aggression against Ukraine.

Ukraine used Cessna-sized drones to attack deep inside the Russian Federation in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said France is to deliver “hundreds” of armored vehicles by the beginning of next year to Ukraine.

A Russian cruise missile strike on infrastructure in Ukraine´s western Lviv region killed one man, officials said Sunday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed a longtime aide and several advisers on Saturday in a continuing reshuffle.

Once the preserve of Ukrainian state-owned industry, private companies producing weapon systems and munitions are now surging.

Western allies should hurry up and hand over the “damn” missiles Ukraine demands, their foreign secretary says.

Ukraine has sunk or disabled a third of all Russian warships in the Black Sea in just over two years of war, said a navy spokesman Tuesday.

Putin addressed Friday’s terrorist attack that killed at least 137, saying for the first time it was the work of “radical Islamists”.