Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Child Killed by Ukrainian Drone Strike in Russia's Belgorod Region, Governor Says (Reuters) -A two-year-old boy was killed by a Ukrainian drone strike in Russia's southern Belgorod region and his ...

near the international border and northwest of Belgorod city. Russian military correspondents shared maps confirming Ukrainian gains in the fields southwest of Demidivka (north of Prylisne ...

This battlefield map shows Ukraine's reported advances in the Belgorod region in Russia. This battlefield map shows Ukraine's reported advances in the Belgorod region in Russia. INSTITUTE FOR THE ...

April 7 (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed for the first time on Monday that Ukrainian troops have been active in Russia's Belgorod region as they seek to protect ...

The city of Belgorod, the provincial capital with a population of about 340,000, sits only 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of the border, making it an easy target for Ukrainian artillery.

At around the same time, Russian media reported explosions inside Belgorod. Russian officials later said Ukrainian artillery was used to fire into Belgorod. The official version of events from the ...

Analysts say Belgorod lies on a part of the map that is within Ukraine's reach and also where Russia has placed logistical and military elements worthy of disruption by Kyiv. Add that all up, and ...

The once-tranquil city of Belgorod, some 25 miles north of Russia’s border with Ukraine, has been transformed into a kind of ghost town, its eerie silence interrupted by the regular wail of ...

In Russia's southwestern Belgorod region, locals reveal what nearly a year of full-scale war waged against nearby Ukraine has brought. In late January, Oleg Artyushenko, a reporter with RFE/RL's ...