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Russia acknowledged on Monday that scores of its troops were killed in one of the Ukraine war's deadliest strikes, drawing demands from nationalist bloggers for commanders to be punished for housing soldiers alongside an ammunition dump. Russia's defence ministry said 63 soldiers had died in the fiery blast which destroyed a temporary barracks in a former vocational college in Makiivka, twin city of the Russian-occupied regional capital of Donetsk. It said the accommodation had been hit by four rockets fired from U.S.-made HIMARS launchers, claiming two rockets had been shot down. Kyiv said the Russian death toll was in the...

Vladimir Putin's notorious warlord Ramzan Kadyrov bizarrely tried to impress Russian TV viewers with some push-ups but ended up being ridiculed online for his efforts. His attempt at showing off his athletic prowess didn't exactly work out the way he expected with viewers of the clip slamming his poor technique. The warlord, who rose to power in 2007, allegedly utilises brutal governing tactics over his fiercely militaristic state apparatus that has waged several wars throughout his rule. The 46-year-old has developed a reputation for using bloody solutions to his problems, including several boasts about his actions in Ukraine, but his...

The UN secretary-general said that nuclear war is "back within the realm of possibility" following Russia's warning earlier this year it was putting its nuclear forces on alert amid its war in Ukraine, which threatens to draw NATO into direct combat with Russia. Since then, nuclear threats have continued to raise concerns a nuclear weapon could be used in a conflict for the first time in decades.