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The report said Russia suffered 1.2 million casualties, including up to 325,000 troop deaths, between February 2022 and December 2025
Major developments have emerged from both international and domestic fronts. In Ukraine, Russia has once again intensified its offensive by carrying out a drone attack that reportedly hit a civilian bus,
Russia continuously upgrades its Geran (Shahed) drones to beat Ukrainian defenses, but rising costs now exceed cheap interceptor drones, flipping the cost balance.
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Russia does not want a global conflict, Medvedev says
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Dmitry Medvedev, a senior Kremlin security official, said in remarks released for publication on Monday that the world was getting very dangerous, but that Russia did not want a global conflict.
A proposal by European leaders for NATO-member troops to be stationed in Ukraine as part of a peace deal is unacceptable for Moscow, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said. Follow the latest.
Russian forces have killed at least 15 civilian miners travelling home from work in what has been described as “an act of terrorism”. A bus operated by Ukrainian energy company DTEK was carrying more than 30 miners when it was hit by a Shahed drone.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the territorial dispute was a central issue for the tripartite talks.
The Trump White House is trying to broker an end to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, approaching its fourth anniversary.
As losses mount, the pace of Russia's advance has at times been slower than the Battle of the Somme during World War I, a report says.