Why not?," Putin said, when asked whether Moscow would conduct joint military drills with Pyongyang. Putin, who has neither denied nor confirmed the presence of North Korean troops inside a Russian region partly controlled by Ukrainian troops,

Officials say Russian missiles, bombs and drones have battered three regions of Ukraine in targeted nighttime attacks

Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, killing one civilian and wounding more than 30 people in the centre, south, and northeast, Ukrainian officials said on Friday. The Russian forces launched 92 drones and five missiles at 12 Ukrainian regions,

The sentence, handed down by a Russian court, is a rare example of the country holding its troops to account for war crimes.