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Russia has been using Cuban mercenaries since 2023, but it has stepped up their use in recent months. Cuban soldiers are familiar with the weapons, trained and paid cheaply, reducing Putin’s political cost to Putin to…

Kyiv, Ukraine – The Russian drone strike was surgically precise and destroyed a giant transformer at a key power station in the Ukrainian capital.

“There’s nothing left to repair,” Mykola Svyrydenko, who lives close to Thermal Station 5, a…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Ukrainian citizen allegedly working for Russian intelligence services as part of a sabotage campaign was detained in Poland, while two others were arrested in Romania, prosecutors…

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If there were a Nobel Prize for patience, Volodymyr Zelenskyy would run away with it. The Ukrainian leader’s…

WARSAW, Poland — WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Ukrainian citizen allegedly working for Russian intelligence services as part of a sabotage campaign was detained in Poland, the country’s top prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Prosecutors said individuals…

Adam Durbin
BBC Verify Live senior journalist

Good morning.

We’ve verified footage showing the destructive aftermath of reported Russian drone strikes in Kherson, a city near the…