Moscow — Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev has warned of the danger of letting the last U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control treaty expire this week without any understanding of what comes next, suggesting it would speed up the "Doomsday Clock".

Elon Musk says SpaceX has cut off Russia’s ability to use captured Starlink terminals on the Ukrainian battlefield, turning a commercial internet service into a tightly controlled piece of wartime infrastructure.

Russian drone strike killed 12 Ukrainian coal miners in what DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko called an "unprovoked terrorist attack" on civilian workers returning from their shift.

MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said that if the New START treaty expired with no replacement then the world should be alarmed that the biggest nuclear powers had no limits for probably the first time since the early 1970s.

The civilian death toll has been edging upward as the war grinds on. The United Nations' Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in January that 2025 was the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since 2022. "A massive increase in the use of long-range weapons by the Russian armed forces" helped drive the trend, the mission said.

Iran, Russia, and China conducted joint military drills near the Strait of Hormuz as US threats against Iran intensify and regional actors prepare for possible escalation.

As losses mount, the pace of Russia's advance has at times been slower than the Battle of the Somme during World War I, a report says.

Russian authorities use various strategies to recruit new troops to replenish its supply of soldiers for its nearly 4-year-old full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia was still trying to de-escalate tensions around Iran, and that it had long ago offered its services to process or store Iran's enriched uranium.

A new report warns that the number of soldiers killed, injured or missing in Russia's war in Ukraine could reach 2 million by spring

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