The Latest Breaking News from Russian Defence Ministry

Russian-backed separatists said Friday that a Ukrainian attack with US-supplied missiles on a separatist eastern region hit a prison and killed 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were captured in Mariupol. There was no immediate confirmation of the attack from Ukraine. The attack with HIMARS multiple rocket launchers on the…

The European Union will discuss tightening sanctions against Russia on Monday, as Moscow is accused of using the continent's largest nuclear power plant to store weapons and launch missiles on the surrounding regions of southern Ukraine. The situation at the captured Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is "extremely tense", Ukraine's atomic energy…

The research said firestorms would release soot and smoke into the upper atmosphere that would block out the Sun, resulting in crop failure around the world

Russian forces are pounding the city of Lysychansk and its surroundings in an all-out attempt to seize the last stronghold of resistance in eastern Ukraine's Luhansk province, the governor said Saturday. Ukrainian fighters have spent weeks trying to defend the city and to keep it from falling to Russia, as…

These images show Russian riflemen allegedly firing on Ukrainian targets with armored vehicles and rocket launchers.

Russia has claimed that its artillery systems went in action and took out Ukrainian troops.

Russian missiles struck a crowded shopping mall in central Ukraine on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as Moscow fought for control of a key eastern city and Western leaders promised to support Kyiv in the war "as long as it takes".

A Russian military cargo plane crashed Friday, killing at least four crewmembers and leaving several others injured, officials said. The heavylift Il-76 cargo plane went down in the southwestern Ryazan region. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the plane suffered an engine problem that forced the crew to crash-land it…

The Russian Defence Ministry said on Saturday that its air defence forces had shot down three Ukrainian war planes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the West not to send longer-range rocket systems to Ukraine

This menacing footage shows the tremendous firepower of Soviet 2S7M Malka self-propelled artillery as it discharges projectiles into the sky over Ukraine.