A North Korean general was wounded in a Ukrainian missile strike on southwestern Russia’s Kursk region, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing anonymous Western officials.

Ukraine on Wednesday fired at least 10 U.K.-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at the Maryino estate, a site located around 32 kilometers (20 miles) from the front lines

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday required definitive action from world leaders following Russia's usage of a speculative hypersonic rocket versus Ukraine, cautioning that the strike marked a significant increase in the war's scale and cruelty. This is an obvious and serious boost in the scale and cruelty of this war, Zelensky
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Alsu Kurmasheva, a longtime journalist for the U.S.-funded RFE/RL news outlet’s Tatar-Bashkir service, became the second U.S. journalist to be jailed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when she was detained in October 2023.

The dual U.S.-Russian citizen, who lives in Prague, was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison in July on charges of spreading

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The United States announced sanctions Thursday targeting dozens of Russian banks, including Gazprombank, the largest remaining bank yet to face U.S. action, as part of its efforts to weaken Russia's capacity to wage war on Ukraine.

The measures, which also target financial institutions and officials, "will further diminish and degrade Russia's war

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Russia launched an experimental hypersonic ballistic missile at Ukraine overnight in response to Kyiv being permitted to strike Russia with U.S. and British long-range missiles, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, vowing to respond to further “escalation.”

While the Russian leader has previously said that letting Kyiv use long-range arms

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Authorities in Russia’s northwestern Leningrad region announced plans on Thursday to appropriate underground spaces, including apartment building basements, for use as bomb shelters.

“There’s no time for disputes now,” Leningrad region Governor Alexander Drozdenko wrote on Telegram, adding that the spaces will be repaired and prepared to shelter the

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