The number raises the prospect that about half a million soldiers in total have died on the Russian and Ukrainian sides.

The total number of Russian military personnel killed from the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine to the end of 2025 stood at 352,000, according to a joint study by two Russian media outlets.

Moscow holds an annual military parade marking Victory Day on Red Square; a possible ceasefire extension with Ukraine beyond May 11 has not yet been discussed, Kremlin spokesperson Peskov says.

Russia has begun a spring offensive in Ukraine, launching a major assault on the “fortress belt” of heavily defended cities in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. At the same time, a wave of nearly 1,000 drones and missiles targeted civilian, energy ...

NATO has intercepted Russian bombers and fighter jets over the Baltic Sea. French Rafale fighters deployed from Lithuania joined jets from Sweden, Finland, Poland, Denmark, and Romania to monitor the Russian flight on Monday.

The war in Ukraine is increasingly becoming a battlefield dominated by drones, relentless assaults and shrinking chances of survival.

Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has described the Pokrovsk front as the most difficult section of the battlefield, saying around 106,000 Russian personnel are deployed there.

Russian gains were recorded near the village of Pishchane in Kharkiv Oblast and near Rodynske in Donetsk Oblast, analysts said. Analysts from the Institute for the Study of War reported on May 2 that Russian forces suffered a net territorial loss in April 2026 for the first time since Ukraine launched its Kursk Oblast operation in August 2024.