Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.

Russian battlefield casualties — dead and injured — have risen to more than 1,500 a day over the last three months, posing serious problems when it comes to replacing their numbers ...

Undated and unverified drone footage showed the purported strike on a building in the Russian-occupied city of Selydove which hosted the 35th separate guards motorized rifle brigade, from the 41st ...

Russian military deaths as a result of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine have reportedly reached up to 350,000 - and there are thought to be chilling contributing factors to the huge toll.

Vladimir Putin is reportedly struggling to replace huge numbers of Russian army casualties as the conflict in Ukraine is set to drag on into its third year. The Russian President launched a full ...

Ukraine has accused Russian spies of orchestrating several bomb attacks on its army recruitment offices, as authorities revealed the latest attack killed one person and injured four. An attack on ...

A Russian musician who opposed the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine plunged to his death from his 10th-story apartment during a ...

Colombo, Feb 07 (Daily Mirror) - Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath said today that 59 Sri Lankans who enlisted in the Russian army had died as of January 20, 2025. Speaking in Parliament ...

Avoiding conscription or getting out of the Russian army is about to become even harder. The Defense Ministry has quietly moved to change military medical regulations, narrowing the list of health ...

Ukraine’s $1.3bn drone war is now being led by a rap artist who has been fighting on the frontline – and in his music - since ...