At the same time, Ukraine is struggling to hold back Russian advanced further south, around the city of Kurakhove, which has been surrounded from three sides for months. Earlier this week, Zelensky called the situation around Kurakhove “the most difficult area” of the frontline.

Over the last day, November 14, 144 combat engagements took place on the frontline. Russia put the most pressure on the Kurakhove sector, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

At a secretive factory in Russia’s central grasslands, engineers are manufacturing hundreds of decoy drones meant to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses as they try to protect against a horrific new weapon,

Russian air defence units intercepted a series of Ukrainian drones in several Russian regions, officials said, many of them in Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops launched a major incursion in August.

A Russian factory plans to create drones surrounding by decoys that cant be detected by radars or sharpshooters

Musk’s reported relations with Russia “pose serious questions” about US national security, the Democratic senators argue.

Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Jack Reed asked the Biden administration to probe whether the conversations are a security risk.

Reports that billionaire Elon Musk has held multiple calls with Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, should be investigated by the Pentagon and law-enforcement agencies on national-security grounds,

The president said stronger ties with South Korea and Japan are working, but did not address whether President-elect Donald J. Trump would continue his approach when he takes office in January.

US President Joe Biden told the leaders of Japan and South Korea that their coordinated efforts were essential to “countering North Korea’s dangerous and destabilizing cooperation with Russia” as they met Friday on the sidelines of the APEC Summit in Lima.