Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Russia has deployed nearly 50,000 troops to Kursk, the southern Russian region where Kyiv launched its surprise counteroffensive in the summer.

South Korea's spy agency also said North Korean troops were "engaging in combat" in the Kursk region, hours after the U.S. military shared its assessment of the growing Russian-North Korean ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link As questions arise over the quality of Kim Jong Un's troops in Russia, a former soldier who served in North Korea's special forces said they ...

The operation will seek to push Kyiv's troops out of Kursk, sources said. LONDON -- As many as 50,000 Russian and North Korean troops are preparing to launch a new counteroffensive to push ...

Russia has prepared tens of thousands of troops for an offensive to retake the Russian region of Kursk, which Ukraine has held for months, according to Kyiv’s commander-in-chief, Col.

North Korean soldiers have begun fighting against Ukraine alongside their Russian allies, the US State Department said, after Pyongyang sent thousands of troops to Russia’s Kursk region to aid ...

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The former prime minister has said that if Vladimir Putin gains the upper hand in the conflict, the UK may have to deploy troops to defend Europe. Mr Trump’s return to the White House has raised ...

The escalating fighting along a more than 1,000-km front line is stretching Ukraine's already outnumbered troops at a critical moment after Donald Trump won the U.S. election, raising the prospect ...