By Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) -Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Moscow on Friday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the signing of a strategic partnership treaty involving closer defence cooperation that is likely to worry the West.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin he believed their two countries could finalise agreements on the construction of a nuclear power plant in Iran as the tw

Below Senior Fellow Can Kasapoğlu offers a military situation report about the war in Ukraine. Executive Summary

Ukraine said it retrieved a diary from a North Korean soldier that contains a confession of stealing from his Russian comrade and battle tactics.

There is mounting evidence from the battlefield, intelligence reports and testimonies of defectors that some North Korean soldiers are resorting to extreme measures as they support Russia's three-year war with Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has shared new footage appearing to show a North Korean soldier wounded in battle and captured by Kyiv after fighting alongside Russian forces.

Commenting on the capture of North Korean soldiers by Ukrainian forces, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has called for increased pressure on the regimes in Russia and the DPRK. — Ukrinform.

KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is ready to hand over captured North Korean soldiers to Pyongyang in exchange for the return of Ukrainian POWs held in Russia.

Ukraine sees tactical advances in Russia’s Kursk, while Moscow claims to have secured front line town in Donbas.

Russia may be close to sharing advanced satellite technology with North Korea after the isolated nation supplied troops to help bolster Moscow’s war in Ukraine, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Monday.

Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang has confirmed the deployment of troops from North Korea to Russia to fight Ukrainian forces.