Russia has unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage on civilian areas of Ukraine and is stepping up ground attacks along the front.

Russia will not extend a truce with Ukraine over Orthodox Easter unless Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accepts its terms, the Kremlin said in an interview aired today (12 April).

Kalashnikov Concern said it plans to mass-produce the 30-round cartridges, which are meant to be fired by its AK-12 and split into fragments.

Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Sunday of breaching the 32-hour ceasefire in their four-year war, each reporting close to 2,000 drone and shelling attacks just hours after the truce began on Saturday to mark Orthodox Easter.

Pennsylvania-linked manufacturer CANPACK says Russia seized control of its $700 million business under a Kremlin decree signed by President Putin.

Neither country has directly intervened in Iran’s war with the U.S. and Israel, but reports suggest they could be helping in other ways.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban has carved ‌out a model of an "illiberal democracy" seen as a blueprint by populist movements.

Over a month since the war between the US-Israel and Iran began, with an attack on Tehran on February 28, Israel has revealed what the war has cost the country.According to a preliminary estimate, Israel's Finance Ministry said that the war