After failing to boost Russia’s fertility rate via pronatalist policies and to extend life expectancies, Putin “seems to have concluded that the only way to achieve a sizable increase in his population is by annexing and subordinating ethnically and culturally related neighbors, by force if necessary.”

Ukraine has inflicted major losses on Putin's army in the Kursk region, with roughly 60,000 Russian troops attempting to recapture territory seized by Kyiv's forces in the summer

US President-elect Donald Trump has criticised President Joe Biden's decision to permit Ukraine to strike Russian territory and hinted that he might withdraw that authorisation. Source: Trump during a press conference in Palm Beach,

North Korean troops deployed in Vladimir Putin ’s Ukraine war are reportedly being hit with heavy losses and killed eight soldiers in a friendly fire incident, according to military experts.

As many as 30 have been “killed or wounded” in Russia’s Kursk region, Ukrainian military intelligence said, among the heaviest losses for North Korean forces yet reported.

Ukraine’s military intelligence agency and the Pentagon say some North Korean troops have been killed during combat against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region