Russia and Japan have never signed an official peace treaty to end the second world war because of a dispute over the Kuril Islands. The Soviet army seized the Kurils at the end of the war in 1945 and ...

A map made by Newsweek shows some of the 80 attacks Ukraine conducted on Russian oil refineries and depots in 2024.

Kyiv drones hit Russian city containing major military base causing huge fires - Ukrainian presidential advisor Alexander Kamyshin says the strike on the Russian oil facility shows Kyiv has ‘superpowe ...

Ukrainian forces made progress towards the Donetsk city of Chasiv Yar whose hilltop location makes it a critical goal for Russia.

a Ukrainian war tracker with close ties to the military. Some of Ukraine’s troops, meanwhile, have retreated several miles back from Kurakhove, around Shevchenko, to defend the advancing Russian ...

As the third year of war in Ukraine nears a close as the new year approaches and ahead of the Feb. 24, 2025, anniversary date, new battle lines have once again been established after Russia made ...

Currently, Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk. That the Russians haven’t been more successful is a ...

It is just over a month until Mr Trump is inaugurated on 20 January, having pledged to end the war in Ukraine in just 24 hours, even if that means forcing Kyiv to cede territory to Russia to achieve ...