Isabel van Brugen

The attack reportedly killed a group of drone operators in Ukraine's occupied Donetsk region on Wednesday.

Twenty-four Russian servicemen were killed and four were wounded in the attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that it is vital that Ukraine retains the initiative in the war.

Attacks on Russian oil and gas infrastructure have been ramped up in recent weeks, including on one of Russia's largest oil refineries.

It marks the fourth suspected drone attack on Russian oil and gas infrastructure over the past week.

Russia has claimed that there were 65 captured Ukrainian military personnel on the jet.

Some Russian presidential candidates have openly said they don't expect to win.

Russia's ministry of defense said 65 captured Ukrainian military personnel were on the Il-76 plane that crashed in Belgorod.

Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia's Belgorod Oblast, said there had been an "incident" in the Korochansky district.

Patriarch Kirill criticized the Kremlin's decision to allow for the mobilization of fathers with three or more children in Russia.

"Guys, we're preparing for the worst," said a local resident of St. Petersburg in northwestern Russia.

Reports suggest that a lack of training by Russia's military has contributed greatly to Moscow's death toll in Ukraine.

Should Kyiv strike two oil terminals in the Baltic Sea, it could halt the export of 1.5 million barrels of oil per day.

Russia's top general Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov hasn't been seen in public this year.

NATO said it would begin an operation this week dubbed "Steadfast Defender 2024"—its largest since the Cold War.

A Pantsir-S1 air-defense system was reported to have been placed close to the residence after drone attacks on Russian soil.

Russia "will be observing from the sidelines," said top Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan.

A Russian A-50 spy plane was detected over the Sea of Azov, days after Ukraine claimed to have shot one down, an official said.

The ship likely was "shot down during an attack by sea drones" several weeks ago, a Ukrainian partisan group said.

Russian TV "makes fun of the cold temperatures in the U.S. while hundreds of thousands" in Russia freeze, a Kyiv official said.

The group hacked into a Russian state enterprise involved in construction work for President Vladimir Putin's military.

"If he gets elected, he will cut off funding for Ukraine and this may be the difference between victory and defeat," Bill Browder said.

French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said his country will be supplying Ukraine with 50 of the weapons per month.

Thousands clashed with police during a rare protest in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan on Wednesday.

An official said Leningrad was the 19th Russian region that Ukraine has targeted in the war so far.

The announcement comes after Russia last year moved to deploy tactical nuclear weapons into Belarus.

St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov was called out for his remarks about gender-neutral bathrooms in Ukrainian schools.

The Kremlin has recruited tens of thousands of prisoners since the war began to create its "Storm-Z" squads.

One person was killed after the Soviet-era helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing.

"In the [war], unfortunately, the worst and most potent threat for the Aerospace Forces has become our air defense," one Russian social media user said.