What does it signify when one of Russia’s leading missile systems is destroyed deep within its own country? On 9 August 2025, the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SSO) carried out a targeted attack on the 448th Missile Brigade of Russia’s Armed Forces in the Kursk area,

Former Ukrainian military chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi has criticized Ukraine's failed cross-border offensive into Russia’s Kursk region, saying the losses were unacceptably high. "The price of these actions is unknown to me,

"I don't know the cost of such actions, but it is clear that it was too high," said Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine's former commander-in-chief.

Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief and current ambassador to the United Kingdom, has delivered his first detailed public reflection on two of the most significant military operations of the past years - the 2023 counteroffensive and the 2024 incursion into Russia’s Kursk Oblast.

A Russian Su-34 fighter jet has been shot down by Ukraine as it was attacking Zaporizhzhia, according to the Ukrainian air force.

Ukrainian forces are struggling to adapt to an elite Russian drone unit known as Rubicon that aims to bring cutting-edge technologies and tactics to the battlefield. New findings from RFE/RL’s Russian Services now shed more light on the secretive military unit.

EXCLUSIVE: Briton who fought for Ukraine says Donald Trump is right, Kyiv can reclaim all of its territory but warns the bloodshed would be "astronomical".

The war in Ukraine has diverted Russia’s resources and attention away from its own critical domestic security issues, creating uneven gaps in its ability to address terrorism, corruption, regional instability and the return of fighters from the war.