Ukraine will summon the Hungarian ambassador to protest that Prime Minister Viktor Orban went to a football match wearing a scarf depicting some Ukrainian territory as part of Hungary, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Ukrainian media showed images of Orban meeting a Hungarian footballer wearing a scarf which the outlet Ukrainska Pravda said depicted a map of ‘Greater Hungary’... 

Ukrainian investigators have uncovered a torture dungeon in the recently liberated city of Kherson, following the discovery of 63 bodies with signs of torture. Reports say a former juvenile detention centre had been repurposed by Russian forces as a facility to inflict electrocutions, suffocations and beatings upon civilians, before their bodies were disposed of. Neighbours allegedly witnessed bodies... 

Rishi Sunak confronted Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov at the G20 summit overnight, telling him to ‘get out of Ukraine and end this barbaric war’. In the first face-to-face clash between a British Prime Minister and a senior Kremlin figure since the war began, Mr Sunak said the ‘Putin regime’ had turned Russia into a pariah. He said it is unacceptable for any country... 

The United Nations General Assembly has taken a decisive step in holding Russia accountable for its invasion of Ukraine and violations of international law. Despite Russian despot Vladimir Putin’s attempts to evade repercussions, the assembly approved a resolution demanding accountability, including reparations to be paid by the dictatorship. In contrast to the UN Security Council, where Putin... 

Ukrainian soldiers uncovered a torture chamber after they liberated Mykolaiv and Kherson from Russian troops on Friday. It is the latest evidence to suggest Putin’s thugs are responsible for war crimes during Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. A makeshift Russian prison used to torture and interrogate Ukrainian dissidents was filmed on fire in Kherson last night after the area was liberated... 

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... 

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... 

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 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... 

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... 

Amid the relentless conflict in Ukraine, Russia’s recent nuclear drills on its own territory have raised questions about Putin’s potential nuclear threats due to setbacks on the battlefield. However, the reality is that these drills are part of Russia’s annual exercises to practice its strategic nuclear forces, with a tenuous connection to the Ukraine conflict at best. The New Start...