The military instructors of Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov are preparing Russian men for war and a militant organisation with links to Chechnya is establishing itself in a growing number of regions, ...

Ukraine has launched a new offensive in Russia's Kursk region. Reporting from the ground is patchy and often contradictory, but one Russian village has emerged as a key focus of the fighting.

Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believe that the intensification of the Ukrainian defence forces' ...