Hello, this is Asami Terajima reporting from Kyiv on day 1,414 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to have marked Orthodox Christmas at a church in a military base,

It’s not often someone gets to collect the bounty on their own head. Denis Nikitin was on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hit list. He still is, but now he’s evading Russian hit squads using the Kremlin’s own money. Related: Ukraine’s new, drone-delivered weapon is basically a phallic claymore

Ukraine has targeted Moscow with drones every day of 2026 so far, according to data published by Russia’s Defence Ministry, in what appeared to mark an escalation from earlier, more sporadic attacks on the Russian capital.

There are now recorded instances of Russian cavalry in action, Russian media try to spin mounted assault as as tactical ingenuity, but charges end in death by drone.

Deposing Chechnya's Ramzan Kadyrov would make Russia's leader “think twice” about his war in Ukraine, he said. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Fighters from Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps have shown how they wiped out a Russian group using a single ground robotic system. Source: 3rd Army Corps Details: Video footage of the planning and execution of the operation codenamed Alphabet was posted on the unit's social media pages.

Ukrainian drone strikes killed two people and wounded two others, including a 4-year-old child, in Russia’s Belgorod and Kursk regions on Sunday, officials said, ahead of peace talks in Paris this week.

December saw a new record number of Ukrainian long-range drones shot down by Russian forces, according to statistics published by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Russia launched five missile strikes on Ukraine's second-biggest city Kharkiv on Monday, damaging energy infrastructure, and attacked an enterprise owned by U.S. agricultural producer Bunge in the southeastern city of Dnipro,

Live coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine with breaking news and frontline updates, updated 11 times today. Russia attacked Dnipro with drones on Jan. 5, damaging an enterprise owned by a U.S. company,