Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Russia advances in Kursk region of western Russia Russian special forces creep along gas pipeline Russia seeking to encircle Ukrainian forces Zelenskiy briefed by his commander-in-chief MOSCOW ...

March 8 (Reuters) - Russian troops have launched a large-scale offensive to retake swaths of the western Kursk region from Ukrainian forces, war bloggers and a senior Russian commander said on ...

Ukraine’s military and Russian war bloggers say Russian special forces walked inside a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units from the rear in the Kursk region KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian special ...

Ukraine’s presence in Russia’s Kursk region has deteriorated sharply, with the Russian advance threatening Kyiv’s sole territorial bargaining counter at a crucial time in the war.

SUMY OBLAST, Ukraine — Ukraine’s seven-month-old sortie into the Russian province of Kursk is on the verge of collapse after Moscow’s troops broke through Kyiv’s defensive line near the ...