When Daryna Trunova, a journalist and presenter at Channel 24, a Ukrainian TV channel, heard that her friend’s son had been hospitalised after an incident at a military recruitment centre in Kyiv, she almost couldn’t believe it. “If I hadn’t known ...

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Six months ago, Anne Ndarua’s only son went to Russia on the promise of a job as an electrical engineer. She says he was forced into military training and she no longer knows if he’s alive.

KHARKIV, Ukraine -- When Russia's full-scale invasion began nearly four years ago, a 26-year-old soldier known as Monka didn't see a combat role she could do. But that changed as technology reshaped the battlefield and opened new paths. Last year, she ...

High-level military communication was suspended in late 2021, as tension between Moscow and Washington rose ahead of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

A Russian general was shot in Moscow and hospitalized, according to Russia’s state-owned military TV channel Zvezda, citing the country’s Investigative Committee.

A deputy chief of Russian military intelligence was shot and wounded in Moscow on Friday, officials said. Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was shot several time by an unidentified assailant, Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of trying to "disrupt the negotiation process" searching for an end to the war.