Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced plans to bolster the country’s military might by creating two new combined arms armies, 14 divisions, and 16 brigades by the end of the year. This move, revealed during a meeting with defense chiefs, comes amid growing concerns about Moscow’s aggressive posture following Vladimir Putin’s disputed reelection. Shoigu emphasized the need... 

The recent events surrounding Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia paint a picture of significant upheaval and loss for the Russian leader. Reports indicate that Putin has suffered substantial casualties among his air force, with 39 pilots and crew members reportedly killed in attacks orchestrated by the Wagner group during Prigozhin’s rebellion. These losses, including the downing of helicopters... 

The sudden turn of events surrounding the Wagner group’s march on Moscow has sent shockwaves across Russia and the international community, prompting widespread concern and speculation about the future of the country and its leadership. Yevgeny Prigozhin’s announcement to halt his mercenaries’ advance and retreat to their field camps in Ukraine came as a surprise to many, defusing... 

Russia expressed significant concern and dismay following Ukraine’s successful interception of its hypersonic missiles, according to the UK’s Ministry of Defence. Ukraine, utilizing a mix of Soviet-era and modern air defense systems, reportedly shot down 18 Russian missiles, including six hypersonic ‘Kinzhal’ rockets. This development came after Russia’s drone and missile... 

The recent developments in the conflict between Ukrainian and Russian forces near Bakhmut have revealed significant setbacks for Putin’s troops, with Ukrainian counter-attacks gaining momentum. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, candidly admitted to the challenges faced by Russian forces, particularly on the flanks around Bakhmut. His remarks included mockery... 

Russia’s Wagner group is reportedly now turning its focus to Africa after suffering heavy losses in Ukraine amid the mercenary group boss’ fall-out with Vladimir Putin. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the group, has been in a long-running dispute with the Kremlin, particularly with defence minister Sergei Shoigu. He has accused Shoigu of blocking the supply of ammunition and personnel to... 

Russia has warned there are ‘fewer and fewer steps’ to a potential ‘nuclear collision’ and warned Britain it will ‘respond’ to its ammunition supplies to Ukraine. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that there were fewer and fewer steps left before a potential ‘nuclear collision’ between Russia and the West, Interfax news agency reported. Shoigu was responding... 

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... 

Two of Putin’s top army lieutenants have ‘openly declared war’ on Defence Minister and staunch Putin loyalist Sergei Shoigu after a series of embarrassing defeats for the Kremlin in Ukraine. Chechen boss Ramzan Kadyrov and founder of the Wagner ‘private army’ or militia Yevgeny Prigozhin have turned on the minister amid heavy defeats and losses over the last two weeks,... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to call up one million Russian soldiers to fight in the war in Ukraine, a Russian newspaper has claimed. The report comes after military analysts identified a classified paragraph in Putin’s “partial-mobilisation” decree. In a televised address to the nation on Wednesday, the Russian President announced a partial-mobilisation of troops... 

Russia’s defence minister has taken time out from massing troops on Ukraine’s borders to unveil a ‘Dolly the Sheep’ cloning dream involving ancient royal warriors and their prize horses using DNA preserved in permafrost. Sergei Shoigu – one of Vladimir Putin’s closest allies – spoke about the potential of the extraordinary 3,000-year-old Scythian burials in... 

NATO will concentrate 40,000 troops and 15,000 items of armament and military hardware near Russian borders, basically in the Black Sea and Baltic regions, Russia’s Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday. Overall, “40,000 troops and 15,000 items of armament and military hardware, including strategic aircraft, will be concentrated” near the Russian borders, the defense... 

Russian Defence Minister General Sergei Shoigu in a September 22, 2019 Interview: We long failed to understand the essential nature of what was going on around us. If the West had continued to behave as it began behaving in Gorbachev’s time – if it had kept all its promises, not moved NATO ever closer to our borders, not expanded its influence in our near abroad, not gotten involved in the internal... 

Footage emerging late this week from an annual military exercise hosted by Russia and involving China, India, and Pakistan has drawn the attention of western military experts who say it’s definitely “upped the ante this year” given the number of foreign forces and the sheer size of the drills, and especially given it’s the first time Russia’s historic political and economic rival China has... 

The Russian government has ordered the arming of Syria with new S-300 anti-aircraft missiles—which can shoot down all but the latest US “stealth” planes, and which will be deadly to Israeli F-15 and F-16 jets—in direct response to last week’s atrocity where a Russian aircraft was shot down after being used as a “cover” by the Jewish state’s air force. In a statement released by Russian...