Two Russian media outlets and German data scientist use review of inheritance records and mortality data to arrive at figure far higher than the 6,000 acknowledged by Moscow

Official says military has enough manpower to replace mercenary force's mutineers and is not planning a new mobilization

After Putin ordered a mass call-up of reservists, some fled the country; those who couldn't are still trying to evade authorities inside Russia

The Kremlin, whose invasion of its neighbor has suffered numerous reversals, is hungry for victories; Russia's forces said 'very close' to taking over Soledar

Russia says three servicemen were killed by debris at the Engels airbase, which houses Tu-160 nuclear-capable strategic bombers

Intelligence cited by Channel 12 indicates Iranian pilots are already training with Russian-made jets

Moscow has faced a series of humiliating setbacks on the ground in Ukraine; Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu proposes increasing personnel in Ukraine to 1.5 million soldiers

While pull-out a potential turning point in war, Zelensky aide says Russian troops laid mines throughout Kherson as they left, predicts they will shell city after relocating

Gunmen from unnamed former Soviet states killed by return fire; Russia's Defense Ministry labels incident a terrorist attack

Instead of zipping past each other, convoys backing opposing sides of Syrian civil war stop to chat, pose for pictures and exchange uniform patches as momentos of the interaction