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 ...

A man was killed Friday when a Ukrainian drone struck his car in an area of southwestern Russia’s Belgorod region where a “no ...

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 ...

Russia has begun to evacuate residents from the border region of Belgorod following a surge in deadly Ukrainian strikes, in a rare admission of the dangers posed by a war from which Moscow has ...

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.

By Anatoly Kurmanaev About 2,500 people have been evacuated in Russia’s Belgorod region after days of Ukrainian shelling and incursions, according to the local governor, underscoring the rapid ...

With cross-border strikes, residents of the Russian region of Belgorod are starting to understand the horrors of war being waged at their doorstep. By Valerie Hopkins and Anatoly Kurmanaev Over ...

July 23 (Reuters) - Russia's southern region of Belgorod is restricting entry from Tuesday to 14 areas on the border with Ukraine that are subject to heavy attack from Kyiv's forces, measures that ...