Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin came under rare criticism by Vyacheslav Markhayev, a former police general, amid Ukraine gaining the upper hand in the war.

Russia has lost around 1,381,430 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on June 13. The number includes 1,310 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

Cage armor has been used to protect vehicles on the battlefield, but it is unusual to see it covering an entire building.

Russia is using small-team infiltrations and drone corridors to penetrate Ukrainian kill zones, but these tactics are unlikely to deliver a decisive breakthrough.

The governing body of world chess has suspended Russia, ​which was for decades the dominant force in the game, after a ruling by the world’s top sports tribunal in favour of Ukraine.

Drone footage appears to show several bridges burning and suffering visible structural damage.

By Olena Harmash and Sergiy Karazy CLOSE TO THE FRONTLINE, Ukraine, June 11 (Reuters) - Deep in an underground bunker, where walls of screens stream live data from across the battlefield, the commander of Ukraine's drone forces is poring over terabytes of information to map out his next campaign: cutting Crimea off from Russia.

As Russia raises excise taxes and tightens its grip on Georgian wine exports, producers face an impossible choice — and America may be the only way out.

Talks appear no closer to ending the war, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to project a bullish view of the Russian economy.

By Anna Pruchnicka June 10 (Reuters) - Ukraine's police chief has accused Russia of recruiting teenage Ukrainian girls to kill Ukrainian military personnel, following the arrest of a 17-year-old suspected of murdering a serviceman on the instructions of a Russian operative.

KYIV, June ⁠13 (Reuters) - ⁠Ukrainian ⁠military has hit ​an oil ‌processing and ‌pumping ⁠facility near ⁠the village of Kotovo ​in Russia's Volgograd ​region, causing a ⁠fire, the ⁠Ukrainian ⁠General Staff ​said on Saturday.

NATO fighter jets were forced to scramble over Lithuania following reports of "radar signal characteristic of unmanned aerial vehicles".