Russia still has many air defenses, and experience it gained against Ukraine actually makes them a bigger threat to NATO aircraft than before 2022.

For Ukraine, this war is a continuation of Russia’s 2014 invasion. For Russia, what was branded as a “special military operation” has now gone on longer than even the Soviet Union’s “Great Patriotic War” from 1941 to 1945 and has cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

North Korea said Monday it completed a new housing district in Pyongyang for families of North Korean soldiers killed while fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine.

South Korean intelligence says around 6,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded while fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine.

A Nigerian man, Balogun Adisa Ridwan, involved in the Russia-Ukraine war, has stated that he travelled abroad strictly in search of civilian employment

Skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was barred due to his helmet depicting Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia.

Kyiv's negotiating team has left for trilateral talks in Geneva with the US and Russia, as the Kremlin rejects accusations it poisoned Alexei Navalny - and North Korea glorifies its fallen troops in Ukraine.

A security source told Business Insider that the drones struck a refinery in Russia's Komi Republic on Thursday.