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 ...

British intelligence has reported that one-third of the troops deployed alongside Russian forces in Ukraine are already out ...

who died "while performing a combat mission" in an F-16 on April 12, the air force said. Another pilot, named by Ukraine as Oleksiy Mes, died while "repelling a massive Russian combined air and ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Captain Pavlo Ivanov, aged 26, died on Apr. 12, 2025, during a combat mission flying ... number of F-16s delivered to Ukraine is unclear.

“We are systematically transforming the Armed Forces of Ukraine to enhance their combat effectiveness,” Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said. Barhylevych will now serve as the general inspector ...