Kyiv and Moscow exchange attacks overnight as drones downed in Russian capital and Leningrad region

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Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down after 18 months on the job

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France and Sweden have signed agreements for France to supply the Nordic country with four modern frigates

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Lockheed Martin has touted the pinpoint accuracy of its Precision Strike Missile

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Japan’s Defense Ministry has disclosed details of an 8.9 trillion yen ($55.6 billion) budget request for the next fiscal year that officials say will increase significantly after the government adopts new security and defense plans later in the year

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Some of Hollywood's biggest stars are heading to Italy for the 83rd Venice Film Festival, starting Wednesday

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Kyiv and Moscow exchange attacks overnight as drones downed in Russian capital and Leningrad region

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An election in eastern Germany on Sunday could produce the first far-right state governor in the country’s post-World War II history

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The leaders of China, Russia and India are among the heads of state gathering at a meeting billed as a counterweight to U.S. global influence

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The death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv, the war’s deadliest attack so far this year, rose to 38 with four people still missing

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Ukraine is striking deeper into the heart of Russia than ever before with swarms of drones that have led Russians into a panic.Experts say that Kyiv’s resourcefulness is a result of studying Moscow, Maira Butt reports

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The Kremlin accused Ukraine of pursuing a ‘path of escalation’ and vowed retaliation

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A Russian drone strike on a warehouse triggered massive explosions and fires, killing 37 people and damaging dozens of nearby homes and buildings in the deadliest Russian attack in Ukraine this year.

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A Russian drone strike that hit a warehouse west of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, killed at least 37 people, making it the war's deadliest attack of the year

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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky vows punishment for those responsible for attack in village of Myla

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Officials say at least 27 people have been killed in a Russian attack on the Bucha district near Kyiv

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Ukraine has been littered with mines since Putin invaded the country in 2022, posing a devastating risk to civilians. Antonina Kulhava, a humanitarian deminer, tells Maira Butt how she is trying to make her country safer

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The Ukrainian president has promised to punish those responsible as munitions were unknowingly stored in the area causing a huge fire to spread from the explosion

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Capitalising on the Hormuz crisis to ramp up action in Ukraine will have consequences, Ratcliffe warns Putin in secret meeting

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Brown believes it is a ‘critical moment’ in the war between Ukraine and Russia

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President Trump dismissed suggestions that the CIA director was sent to Moscow over concerns that Russia could test NATO’s resolve

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Russian forces have resumed drone attacks on Ukraine’s Kyiv region, hitting numerous buildings and storage depots

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Editorial: The most stupid conflict America has ever got itself involved in, Operation Epic Fury was the wrong war fought at the wrong time and for the wrong reasons

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‘There is a concrete goal, and we will fulfil this task,’ Ukrainian president says

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A new production of the “The Odyssey” in wartime Kyiv reimagines Homer’s epic through the experience of modern Ukraine

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Seoul says South Korea, the U.S. and Japan will go ahead with a trilateral military drill next month to better deal with North Korean nuclear threats

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The U.S. military faces a “beyond critical” shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump's war with Iran

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Russia warned ‘London’s actions will inevitably carry consequences’

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Russia warns Britain is ‘playing with fire’ by supplying Storm Shadow missile technology to Ukraine

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Trump says he is hopeful 'something may come out of' CIA chief’s meetings in Russia

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Canadian military spending is surging, with companies expanding into defense contracting

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A pro-Russian hacker group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Norwegian government digital services

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Neither the White House or the Kremlin have offered an explanation for the first trip by a US spy chief to the Russian capital in nearly five years

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The Kremlin says CIA Director John Ratcliffe held talks in Moscow with his intelligence counterparts, a rare and secretive visit at a time when relations with Washington remain strained over Russia’s war in Ukraine

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, has emerged as a central, if controversial, private figure in Ukraine's defense effort

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His feat captured the country's attention and earned him its highest military honour

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Ukrainian long-range drones have struck a major warehouse belonging to Russia’s biggest online retailer, Wildberries, for the second time in just over a month

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Trump says he is hopeful 'something may come out of' CIA chief’s meetings in Russia

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Robert Gilman is the latest in a succession of high-profile prisoners freed by Russia going back years, but his release hardly cleared the decks of Americans behind bars there

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Neither the Kremlin nor the CIA have commented on the visit

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The United Nations and the International Red Cross are urging countries to adopt bans and restrictions on autonomous weapons systems, often called killer robots

Andy Burnham played guitar with Ukrainian soldiers on his first official trip to Kyiv as prime minister.

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Ratcliffe’s purpose and meetings in Russia are not immediately clear but it marks the first known trip from a US spy chief since November 2021

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