The Russian army liberated the village of Velikaya Novoselka in the DPR. This is reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Eyewitness video shows a fire burning in Russia's Bryansk region following reports of an air attack across the country and drones being destroyed in the region.

For the past year, Russian forces have been waging an intense campaign to punch holes in Ukraine’s defences in the Donetsk region and weaken Kyiv’s grip on the eastern parts of the country. The sustained and costly offensive has compelled Kyiv to give up a series of towns, villages and hamlets.

Russian forces have retaken 63.2% of the territory captured by Ukraine in the Kursk region of western Russia, the Russian defence ministry said on Friday.

The Russian Embassy in London said that Russia posed no threat to undersea cables in Britain and other NATO countries, after UK defence minister John Healey accused Moscow of "malign activity" at sea.

Comes as South Korea’s military says North Korea is preparing to send more troops to join Russia’s war in Ukraine

Russia’s military on Tuesday said it would retaliate against Ukraine after Kyiv attacked Russian regions by firing six US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles, six UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles and launching one of the biggest drone attacks to date.

Ukraine fired a large volley of exploding drones at Russia, according to Ukrainian officials and the Russian military, in a barrage that set an

Ukraine launched an attack on Russia's Belgorod region with six U.S.-made ATACMS missiles on Thursday, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday. It said that Russia would retaliate, but that all the missiles had been intercepted,

As snow fell in a wooded area of Ukraine, the long-range attack drones accelerated one by one down an unlit, abandoned road and their whirring engines propelled them into the night sky. The unmanned aircraft carrying explosive warheads are part of a Ukrainian campaign of long-range drone attacks that aim to inflict blows on Russia far behind the front line as Moscow's troops advance in the east.

Oleksandr Syrskyi credited Ukraine's attacks on "industrial enterprises" that manufacture ammo, missile parts, and other weapons deep inside Russia.