Russia’s military may never recover from the damage it has suffered in Ukraine, the Pentagon has said. Colin Kahl, the under secretary for defence, revealed half of Vladimir Putin’s tanks have been destroyed and most of his precision missiles used up since he ordered the invasion a little over eight months ago. Sanctions mean it will be ‘very difficult’ for Moscow to rebuild... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

Vladimir Zelensky, president of Ukraine, said this week that if Russia chose to use nuclear weapons on Kiev, the world should make it known that it would be met with an immediate military response. The head of Ukraine claimed that Moscow only speaks the language of force and has been utilizing “terrorist” blackmail techniques. Zelensky asserted that Moscow has frequently threatened to... 

Russia has mined a huge hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine in a plot to unleash a devastating flood, officials in Kyiv have warned. Moscow’s ‘nuclear blackmail’ had failed and the Kremlin was now resorting to new scare tactics, the head of the Ukrainian presidential office Andriy Yermak said last night. ‘Ukraine will not succumb to peace by coercion,’ he added. ‘They won’t break us.... 

A Ukrainian conductor has been shot dead in his own home by Russian troops for refusing to take part in a concert in occupied territory, Kyiv has claimed. Yuriy Kerpatenko snubbed the Kremlin-backed concert ‘intended by the occupiers to demonstrate the so-called ‘improvement of peaceful life’ in Kherson’, the Ukrainian culture ministry said. The October 1 concert was scheduled... 

NATO has announced plans to ‘rebuild’ Ukraine’s army and defense industry amid mounting fears about nuclear war with Russia. According to a Politico report, the first meeting about the new alliance between NATO and the Ukrainian government will be held next week. Moscow will only take this as further evidence the Western military alliance is intent on expanding its military infrastructure right... 

In a bold and relentless move, Ukraine’s army executed a strategic assault on critical Russian infrastructure, leaving Vladimir Putin reeling and the Belgorod region in chaos. The two-day offensive targeted key installations, including an ammunition warehouse and a power substation, escalating tensions in the border region. The assault began with the destruction of an ammunition depot in a Belgorod... 

Vladimir Putin has been warned by the European Union’s top diplomat the Russian Army would be “annihilated” if it follows through with threats of a nuclear attack against Ukraine. Tensions have exploded over fears Russia could use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, with Putin issuing threats as he staged the annexation of four occupied regions in the face of devastating losses... 

Vladimir Putin has rained down more kamikaze drones on Ukraine as he continues his brutal campaign of retaliation for the destruction of the Crimean bridge. A strike using the Iranian-made Shahed-136 ‘suicide’ drones near Makrariv, a small city located 31 miles west of Kyiv, destroyed critical infrastructure, sending rescue workers rushing to the scene. Throughout the capital region, residents... 

Yesterday, Vladimir Putin unleashed a deadly missile assault on the towns and civilian infrastructure of Ukraine. In reaction to Putin’s overwhelming onslaught, US President Joe Biden pledged Ukraine cutting-edge air defense systems. He denounced Russia’s “senseless strikes” in a phone chat with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday. He said in a statement... 

Fears were raised today that Belarus could join the conflict in Ukraine after President Alexander Lukashenko announced he will deploy a ‘joint military task force’ with Russia on the country’s western border. The dictator said this was in response to what he said was a clear threat to Belarus from Kyiv and its backers in the West, claiming without evidence that that Lithuania, Poland... 

Vladimir Putin has vowed a ‘severe’ response to attacks on Russia after firing dozens of missiles at Ukraine this morning, blowing up power networks and killing civilians in retaliation for the Crimean bridge blast at the weekend. Not a single Ukrainian soldier has died in Putin’s attacks, only civilians. This man needs to be brought before an international tribunal for war crimes. At...