The Latest Breaking News from Russia

Ukraine is aiming to exhaust and inflict heavy losses on Russian forces trying to capture the small eastern city of Bakhmut, the commander of Ukrainian ground forces said in a video posted on Tuesday.

Belarus on Tuesday confirmed it will host Russian tactical nuclear weapons, saying the decision was a response to years of Western pressure, including sanctions and what it said was a military-build up by NATO member states near its borders.

Russia's Defence Ministry says its boats launched a simulated missile attack on a mock enemy warship in the Peter the Great Gulf, successfully hitting the target with two cruise missiles.

Amnesty International publishes annual report highlighting the state of human rights in more than 150 countries.

Ukrainian authorities said air defenses shot down Russian drones near Kyiv on Monday and falling debris set a non-residential site ablaze, but no casualties were found. Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv city military administration, said Russia had launched 12 drones towards Kyiv but Ukraine's air defense forces had identified…

Russia’s 10th Tank Regiment has lost many of its tanks in “tactically flawed frontal assaults” on the eastern town of Avdiivka in Ukraine, British defence chiefs said on Tuesday.

Britain and Germany have delivered tanks they promised to Ukraine, which is expected to use them in possible spring counter-offensives against Russian forces.

The Kremlin has moved tactical nuclear weapons into Belarus and promises strategic nukes in Pacific subs by the end of next year

The nuclear facility has lost its external power supply six times since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago