Michael Weiss

A long-awaited Ukrainian move to retake the Russian-occupied swath of south of the country appears to have begun Monday, according to both Ukrainian and pro-Russian sources.

Dagestan in the Caucasus and Buryatia in the far east are the most restive as the Kremlin conscripts more soldiers for Ukraine.

Mikk Marran, the head of Estonia’s foreign intelligence agency, is optimistic about the future because he feels vindicated about the past.

Kyiv has accused Moscow of targeting Ukraine’s power and electricity platforms with the goal of forcing its population to freeze this winter.

Estonian national Danil Danilov was recorded on video confessing he was a spy for the Estonian Kapo, or Internal Security Service, involved in stealing Russian state secrets. His capture seemed to be a triumph for the Russians. The only problem: He wasn’t a spy.

When the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Ukrainians with pet carriers were a frequent sight among the stream of refugees heading west. Ukrainians carried their dogs, cats, rabbits and even fish for hundreds of miles as the scale of Russia’s attack on their country became clear. The mass exodus of pets was such that bordering nations waived their normally strict quarantine protocols to allow in the displaced with four legs.

Yahoo News has obtained an internal strategy document from Vladimir Putin's presidential administration that reveals Moscow's plans for Moldova, a small country vulnerably sandwiched between war-torn Ukraine and Romania, which is a member of the European Union and NATO.

Last summer, a group of Ukrainian volunteers, working closely with their country’s intelligence service, apparently came close to persuading three Russian aviators who were in the midst of bombing Ukraine to defect with their warplanes in exchange for $1 million a piece.

'We will keep killing Russians,' Ukraine’s military intelligence chief vows

Yahoo News has exclusively obtained an internal U.S. Air Force assessment that concludes it would take only four months to train Ukrainian pilots to operate American-made F-16 fighter jets, a far shorter time frame than what has been repeatedly cited by Pentagon officials.