Russia's guided missile ship, the "Ivanovets," suffered multiple hits to its hull before it sank overnight in the harbor of Lake Donuzlav, Crimea's deepest lake, Ukraine's Defense Intelligence said.
Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defence ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine's security service has reported.
Ukraine says it has intelligence suggesting only five bodies were delivered from the crash site of a Russian military transport plane to a nearby morgue.
Some of the Ukrainians had been held since 2022, including some who fought in milestone battles for Ukraine's Snake Island and the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
Western officials and analysts recently warned that Russia was building up stockpiles for massive strikes during the winter, hoping to break the Ukrainians' spirit.
His country's future at stake, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told United States senators that with US aid his fighters can beat back the Russian invasion.
The wife of Ukraine's top military intelligence official has been hospitalised with apparent heavy metals poisoning, according to Ukrainian and western officials.
Officials said air defences intercepted 71 of the Iranian-made drones across six regions of Ukraine – but the vast majority of the drones were intercepted in the Kyiv region.
Russia is executing soldiers who have failed to follow orders and threatening entire units with death if they retreat from Ukrainian artillery fire, the White House said.
The two countries have forged an informal alliance against the United States and other democratic nations that is now complicated by the Israel-Hamas war.
A Russian rocket struck a village cafe and store in eastern Ukraine on Thursday and killed at least 50 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in months, according to President Zelenskyy and other top officials in Kyiv.
The militarisation of Russia's public schools has intensified since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, driven not by a spontaneous surge of patriotic feeling, but by the government in Moscow.
Putin is believed to be seeking one of the few things impoverished North Korea has in abundance — stockpiles of aging ammunition and rockets for Soviet-era weapons.
India's Prime Minister has sparked questions about whether the nation could be headed for an official name change after 'India' was replaced with a Sanskrit word on G20 Summit invitations.