A video widely shared on social media appears to show a handheld device intercepting a drone. While some users have hailed the system as a Ukrainian military innovation, others have claimed it is Russian technology.

The partners have stepped up joint naval training and patrols in a challenge to U.S. military dominance in the Pacific.

Russia is still inching forward in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, but outside experts and Ukrainian soldiers say Russia’s claims of advancement are exaggerated.

S irens did not wail in the early hours of June 21st in Feodosia, an attractive resort town on the east coast of the Crimean peninsula. There was only the buzzing of drones and th

Russia's Tu-160 heavy bomber, designed in the days of the Soviet Union, can carry both conventional and nuclear bombs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was seen taking his seat in an aircraft cockpit as he toured cutting-edge Russian aircraft at the Gromov Flight Research Institute in Zhukovsky, in the Moscow region on Wednesday.

It is true that this resilience owes a lot to Russia’s heavy fiscal stimulus. Last year the government spent the equivalent of 7-8% of GDP on the armed forces. This enormous outlay, those who foresee a crisis argue, sucks manpower from the rest of the economy, as well as draining the government’s finances.

By Ben Aris in Berlin Russia's brief fiscal reprieve from the Gulf war is already coming to an end. A surge in oil prices in the last months looked like it would bail the Kremlin out which is increasingly struggling to pay for the war in Ukraine.