North Korean troops have begun engaging in combat operations alongside Russian forces, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday, expressing concern that Russia had turned to North Korea for soldiers to fight in its war with Ukraine.

Russia lost more men in one day than one of its recent daily male birth rates, as it reached its highest number of casualties in a single day since Moscow invaded Ukraine. Some 1,950 troops died on Monday, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces ...

President Vladimir Putin, who has cast Russia as a bastion of "traditional values" locked in an existential struggle with a decadent West, has encouraged women to have at least three children, saying that will help secure the future of Russians. There are already financial and other incentives.