During the 2014 annexation of Crimea, unmarked masked soldiers were filmed operating alongside Russian sympathizers, and in the months that followed these same men appeared in Syria, Libya, and multiple African nations wearing a skull patch marked Wagner.

In the Russian armed forces today, there are a number of people who come from the military and officers of the Ukrainian army. The Telegraph reported that some were promoted to the rank of general and given the responsibility of commanding large military forces attacking Ukraine itself,

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited troops near Ukraine's southeastern front on Thursday, warning of the need to shore up the lines after losing ground in increasingly high-intensity battles far from Russia's main offensive in the east.

Russian invasion forces are reinforcing their units on the Dnipro River front with new crews of drone operators trained at facilities in temporarily occupied Crimea. — Ukrinform.

More than 60 Ukrainian drones were intercepted over the southern Krasnodar region that borders Crimea, according to the ministry. A total of 45 drones were destroyed over the Saratov region, deeper inside Russia, while another 19 were shot down over Crimea.

Fighting intensify, as Kyiv claims attacks on oil facilities in Zaporizhia and Crimea and Moscow pushes on villages.

The Ukrainian military said on Thursday that it attacked an oil-related facility in Russian-annexed Crimea, while Russia's defense ministry announced that it has captured two settlements in eastern Ukraine.

FOOTAGE shows troops from Ukraine’s special forces fighting Russian soldiers in a desperate battle for the fortress city of Pokrovsk. Moscow has been pushing hard to capture Pokrovsk, dubbed

Russian missiles and drones struck dozens of apartment buildings in Kyiv on Friday, killing six and injuring 35 people, including children and a pregnant woman, in the Ukrainian capital, according