Russia and Ukraine say they each swapped hundreds of prisoners in the largest exchange since the Russian full-scale invasion ...

Russia said it ejected Ukrainian forces from a village in the Russian region of Kursk, leaving just one remaining settlement ...

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Saturday that its forces recaptured the second-to-last village in the Kursk region still held ...

A Moscow court on Wednesday ordered former Kursk region governor Alexei Smirnov held in custody as authorities investigate 'major fraud' allegations ahead of his June 15 trial, according to state ...

Major scandal in Russia: The former Governor of Kursk region Alexey Smirnov has been remanded in custody for two months ...

A Moscow court sent former Kursk Oblast Governor Alexei Smirnov to a two-month pre-trial detention center on April 16 in ...

Aleksei B. Smirnov, together with his deputy and other accomplices, was accused of embezzling money earmarked for building ...

The interior ministry said the charges concerned funds that had been allocated for building defensive structures in the ...

But a gradual retreat and then a rapid Russian counterattack has in recent weeks pushed most Ukrainian troops out of Russia’s Kursk region - losing Ukraine its only territorial bargaining chip ...

After months of resisting calls to step down, Marina Degtyareva resigned on Wednesday from her post as the head of the Kursk region’s Korenevsky district. She faced intense criticism for her ...

The small-scale incursion into yet another Russian region may be Ukraine's attempt to alleviate the pressure from the country's troops still fighting in the adjacent Kursk Oblast, military experts ...

"Nevertheless, the Ukrainians are able to hold the territory they've captured in Kursk Oblast. Because of this, Russia is being forced to concentrate significant forces in that area in order to push ...