The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to November 1, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amount to about 1,142,730 people, including 900 yesterday. — Ukrinform.

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Wednesday that Russian troops have surrounded Ukrainian forces in two key eastern cities of Ukraine and offered to negotiate a deal for their surrender. Ukrainian military officials vigorously denied the claim.

Ukraine's top military commander said on Saturday his troops were still holding out in the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk, which Moscow said its forces were at last enclosing in a pincer movement after more than a year of fighting.

Ukraine has rolled out a video game-style rewards system for its drone pilots, giving them new weapons and upgrades for every successful kill against Russian invaders, according to a new report.

Fighting for control of the strategic hub of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine is intensifying, with the Russian Defense Ministry claiming to have eliminated a group of Ukrainian special forces sent to help defend the area.

Ukraine plans to fully clear Kupiansk of Russian troops. Dates for the operation have already been set, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this at a briefing, according to Interfax‑Ukraine. The Ukrainian president said that up to 60 Russian military personnel remain in Kupiansk.

An estimated 2,000 Colombian mercenaries serve on Ukraine's front lines, defending against Russia's aggression. They face death and serious injuries on the conflict's brutal battlefields, for pay that could change their lives on the return home.

As the Russia-Ukraine war continues to rage on for over three years, the war-torn eastern European nation has introduced a new way to ‘gamify’ the conflict, gifting soldiers points for any new feat in the long-stretched war.

Moscow’s forces infiltrated Pokrovsk after months of attacks on the city, a strategic part of Ukraine’s eastern defenses.

The Ukrainian military has claimed its positions in some districts of Pokrovsk have improved despite the city being infiltrated by Russian troops.