Russia claims to have seized the border village of Oleshnya, pushing Ukrainian forces from one of their last footholds in the ...

The interior ministry said the charges concerned funds that had been allocated for building defensive structures in the ...

The former governor of Russia's Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, was detained on Wednesday on suspicion of fraud, state news ...

Russia on Saturday said it had retaken the penultimate village still under Ukrainian control in its Kursk frontier region, ...

Russia pushes Ukrainian forces from Kursk region, taking control of villages; fierce fighting continues, drones used in attacks.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Saturday that its forces recaptured the second-to-last village in the Kursk region still held ...

The Russian authorities have arrested Alexey Smirnov, the former head of the country’s embattled Kursk region. Smirnov stands ...

The former governor of Russia's Kursk region, parts of which were seized by Ukrainian forces in August 2024, was detained on ...

Aleksei B. Smirnov, together with his deputy and other accomplices, was accused of embezzling money earmarked for building defenses that failed to prevent a Ukrainian attack in Kursk. By Ivan ...

An elderly woman has been killed and nine people injured after Ukraine launched a "massive" drone attack on the border region ...

Russia is close to regaining full control of its western Kursk region after pushing Ukrainian forces from one of their last ...

A Ukrainian drone attack killed an 85-year-old woman and injured nine people in the Russian city of Kursk near the border ...