Russia will retreat from the city of Kherson in the most-humiliating loss yet for Putin’s military, its top commander has announced. General Sergei Surovikin, who is leading the war, said the city is now impossible to defend and that troops will withdraw across the Dnipro River ‘in the near future’ to defend the other bank. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has agreed to the plan Witnesses... 

The first man arrived at 7.27am. Russian soldiers covered his head and marched him up the driveway toward a nondescript office building. Two minutes later, a pleading, gagged voice pierced the morning stillness. Then the merciless reply: ‘Talk! Talk, f*****g motherf***er!’ The women and children came later, gripping hastily packed bags, their pet dogs in tow. It was a cold, gray morning,... 

Hundreds of freshly-dug graves have appeared at a mass burial site near the Ukrainian city of Mariupol as the death toll from Russia’s siege continues to grow. Some 1,500 new pits appeared in satellite images taken of Staryi Krym, around five miles from the centre of Mariupol, between late June and mid-October. Witnesses say Russian soldiers now occupying Mariupol have spent recent months removing... 

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered a global economic crisis and heightened the risk of a continent-wide conflict in Europe. Vladimir Putin’s decision to significantly reduce gas supplies to the EU, which previously relied on Moscow for 40 percent of its gas, has intensified geopolitical tensions. Accusations against Russia for the explosion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in... 

Serbia must choose between cooperating with Russia or joining the EU. This is stated by a representative of the German government to the news agency Reuters. There will be “consequences” for Serbia if the country continues to interact with Moscow, the German representative told Reuters. – The need for a decision is being drawn to its peak in view of the geopolitical development. The... 

Amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, there are growing concerns about the alignment of Russia, Iran, and China, forming a potential axis of collaboration against the West. Security experts warn of the implications of this alliance, particularly as Iran reportedly seeks Russian assistance to enhance its nuclear weapons program in the absence of a new deal following the collapse of the 2015 nuclear... 

In Kosovo’s breakaway area, dozens of ethnic Serb government workers have left their jobs. They are protesting the removal of a police commander who had refused to carry out Pristina’s directives for motorists to swap their Belgrade-issued license plates or face fines that might lead to vehicle seizure. In the province’s four majority-Serb towns, a government minister, ten lawmakers,... 

Iran sparked fury in Kyiv as the country admitted for the first time on Saturday that it had sent drones to Russia – but insisted they were supplied to its ally before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. In response, Kyiv has warned Iran that the ‘consequences’ of supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine are greater than the ‘benefits’. This comes as Kyiv and its... 

According to Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s press secretary, Washington is committed to providing Kiev with air defense capabilities and that Kiev will soon get a number of the so-called VAMPIRE counter-drone systems. The announcement coincided with Russia’s ongoing missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure. The US government has not officially signed a contract... 

The Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch movement is singled out as a dangerous sect when Russia is to “de-satanize” Ukraine. This has led to Moscow’s former chief rabbi now calling on Jews to leave Russia, the Times of Israel reports. Aleksey Pavlov, deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, argued earlier this week that it is necessary to “de-Satanize” Ukraine. Russia has... 

The Iron Dome, Israel’s advanced rocket defense system, has been a crucial asset in safeguarding the nation against incoming missiles, with a success rate of over 95 percent. In a recent exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, Israeli soldiers acknowledged that the system could technically turn the tide in the Ukraine war, given its impressive interception capabilities. However, there have been... 

According to Newsweek, on October 26th, “Finland Will Allow NATO to Place Nuclear Weapons on Border With Russia”. They cite Finnish media reports. Allegedly, a condition that NATO had placed on Finland to join NATO was to allow America’s nuclear missiles to be positioned on Finland’s Russian border, which is closer to Moscow than any other except Ukraine’s. Whereas Ukraine’s would be 5... 

This is believed to be the first incident of the impact of the Ukraine war spilling outside the country’s internationally recognised borders. A Russian missile that targeted Ukraine landed in nearby Moldova in what has been called the first “spillover” of the Ukraine war into a nearby country. On Monday morning, Moscow launched a wave of missile attacks across Ukraine, including... 

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the formidable leader of the Wagner Group, a notorious private army often associated with being a potential successor to Vladimir Putin, recently engaged in a face-to-face confrontation with the Russian president, critiquing his handling of the ongoing war in Ukraine. This audacious act of defiance, disclosed by US intelligence reports, sheds light on Prigozhin’s increasing... 

The Pentagon has issued a stark warning to Russia: stop the war in Ukraine or face nuclear war with America. As Bloomberg reports, the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy rejects limits on using nuclear weapons long championed by arms control advocates citing mounting threats from Russia and China. “By the 2030s the United States will, for the first time in its history face two major nuclear...