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 has pushed Ukrainian forces from one of their last remaining footholds in Russia's Kursk region, officials said Saturday (April 19, 2025). According to Russia's Defence Ministry, its forces ...

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 ...

"Kursk has been subjected to a massive enemy attack overnight," the Kursk region administration said in a post on Telegram messaging app. A multi-storey apartment building was damaged in result of the ...

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 ...