For the first time this year, independent Russian media outlets Mediazona and Meduza on May 9 updated their overall estimate of Russia's military losses in Ukraine. According to their report, 352,000 Russian men between the ages of 18 and 59 have been killed since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.

The Institute for the Study of War reports Russia has lost substantial territory in Ukraine for the first time since the summer of 2024. Russia is now in its 5th consecutive month of losing more soldiers than it can replace.

Poland's internal security service has warned that Russia is shifting from using individual recruits to 'professional' networks to carry out a campaign of sabotage across Europe.

Moscow (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin presided over his most pared-back Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square, after a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine took effect.

Four years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia is facing a spring of discontent.

Tensions are high as Russia prepares to celebrate its most important secular holiday. Fears about security amid the war with Ukraine and signs of domestic discontent are casting a shadow over annual celebrations in Moscow’s Red Square.