Leaders and top officials from an international group founded to counter Western alliances met in Pakistan’s capital Wednesday, with Moscow and Beijing announcing they will boost cooperation.
Some members of Congress are calling for the suspension of the so-called five-year rule, a measure that for many years has capped how long government service employees can work overseas in a military assignment.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told lawmakers Wednesday that Ukraine’s Western partners are increasing pressure to negotiate with Russia, but he hinted such talks would be unfavorable to Kyiv as he unveiled what he called his “victory plan” for the war.
Gen. Darryl Williams, the U.S. Army’s top general in Europe, warned this week that Russian operatives making mischief in NATO territory have ratcheted up the risk of military escalation with Moscow.
The new special duty pay adds up to $240 per month for all soldiers, regardless of rank, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth said Monday.
Ukraine’s brigades can recruit their own soldiers, and they compete with each other to craft the best advertising campaigns to sell the war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to “test the West’s red lines” and will be prepared for a military engagement with NATO by the end of the decade, according to Germany’s top spy.
A Russian court on Monday convicted a French citizen of collecting military information and sentenced him to three years in prison.
Though Iceland has a pacifist tradition and no military, it has been a member of the NATO alliance since its founding after World War II.
Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman urged international organizations Sunday to respond to a claim that several Ukrainian prisoners of war were executed in Russia’s Kursk region, where Kyiv had launched an incursion in August.
Ukrainian military recruitment officers raided restaurants, bars and a concert hall in Kyiv, checking military registration documents and detaining men who were not in compliance, media and witnesses reported Saturday.
Starlink dishes form the backbone of Ukraine’s military network — one of the few advantages Kyiv has against Moscow’s bigger, if less modernized, force. Yet there is a burgeoning black market of Starlinks bringing the terminals to Russians on the front, Ukrainian soldiers said.
Navalny was President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest and most prominent foe and relentlessly campaigned against official corruption in Russia. He died in a remote Arctic prison in February while serving a 19-year sentence on several charges, including running an extremist group, which he said were politically motivated.
The leaders of nine southern European Union countries on Friday pledged support for Lebanon’s armed forces to reassert control over the country’s southern territory in hopes of bringing peace to an area plagued by fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
Spc. Isac Alejandro Calderon showed up for police interviews after the 2023 incident, so he was not arrested. But he later fled to the U.S. just before a scheduled court date.
A Ukrainian military intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said “several thousand” North Korean infantry soldiers are undergoing training in Russia now and could be deployed to the front line in Ukraine by the end of this year.