Ukraine’s Defense Ministry is offering new financial and other benefits it hopes will attract men in the 18 to 24 age group to military service.

Even before its aggression against Ukraine, Russia was grappling with significant problems due to declining birth rates. The ...

The woman putting up the stickers is a member of Zla Mavka, an all-female resistance group. In the occupied territories, hope ...

In June 2022, Lt Fisher, who is based in Yeovil, Somerset, proudly put on her green beret, which is worn exclusively by those ...

My concerns, expressed in this regard, have been on this page over the years and they cover the military as well as ... the years has been about issuing “marching orders” after each attack ...

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The Tartus port is also home to one of Russia’s military bases in Syria, serving as a key logistics hub for the Russian Navy. In addition to Tartus, the Khmeimim Air Base in the Latakia governorate is ...

Russian naval vessels have for years carried out missions near Britain and elsewhere. But Mr. Healey on Wednesday gave an unusual amount of detail about the normally shadowy world of military ...

Russian forces attacked the city of Kupiansk and the village of Bilyi Kolodiaz in the Chuhuiv district of Kharkiv Oblast on 21 January, leaving four women injured. Source: Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor’s ...

Despite losing more than 800,000 troops killed and wounded in the first three years of its wider war on Ukraine, the Russian military has still managed to sustain a front-line force of no fewer ...