MOSCOW, January 20. /TASS/. According to a preliminary estimate, the Russian federal budget deficit totaled 3.485 trillion rubles ($34.5 bln) or 1.7% of GDP, the ministry said. Federal budget revenues ...

Trump understands that our goal in Ukraine must be a genuine peace, not merely a sham and prelude to yet another conflict.

Several senior military and defense officials linked to former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu were arrested on ...

The IDF said on Thursday that 891 soldiers have died during the war years 2023-2024, including a jump in suicides to 38 during that period. Five hundred fifty-eight soldiers died in 2023 and 363 ...

Ukraine’s National Resistance Center (NRC) has obtained a letter from Turpal Ilyasov, the representative of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov in Russia's Ural Federal District, containing instructions on ...

As the third year of war in Ukraine nears a close as the new year approaches and ahead of the Feb. 24, 2025, anniversary date, new battle lines have once again been established after Russia made ...

Secret files from a decade ago reveal Russian military plans showing “detailed target lists for a potential war with Japan and South Korea that included nuclear power stations and other civilian ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States will send nearly $2.5 billion more in weapons to Ukraine as his administration works quickly to spend all the money it has ...

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December 30, 2024: Firepower is a multifunction tool in combat. For example, during the 1999 Chechnya War in the Caucasus Russian troops used firepower intensive tactics to take Chechen capital of ...

Nearly three years of war have devastated much of Moscow's military, but its other forces, like its naval fleet and air force ...