A MENACING Vladimir Putin has defied Donald Trump and declared he can “finish off” Ukraine despite an impending ceasefire.

From Alyosha, Putin drove pass the Kursk submarine memorial without stopping. The sail of the ill-fated submarine that sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000, killing all 118 sailers onboard, ...

Ukrainian soldiers have lost ground in Russia’s Kursk region, but they are not surrounded and at the mercy of Moscow despite claims by both Vladimir Putin and President Trump, according to US ...

Once considered indestructible, the Kursk submarine became a death trap for its crew. What caused the deadly explosion, and why was no rescue possible? Trump releases classified files on JFK ...

RUSSIA - Russian pensioner Olga Shkuratova trembled, clutching a scrap of paper bearing a handwritten phone number for her son. She had not spoken to him in the seven months that she was trapped ...

THE SIGNALS were coming fast and furious by the first week of March. Ukrainian forces in the Kursk bridgehead, an area of Russia that Ukraine seized last August, were becoming trapped. Aided by ...

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At the height of their offensive, Ukrainian forces controlled some 500 square miles of Russian soil. Now they hold just a narrow strip of land along the border. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Ukrainian ...

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There is no encirclement of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk Oblast. The situation in the Pokrovsk Axis has been stabilized. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported this on his official page on ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his troops are still holding off Russian and North Korean forces in Russia’s Kursk region after a U.S. military official said Russian forces could ...