Russia tests new nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missileRussia has successfully tested its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, a weapon President Vladimir Putin claims can evade all defen...
International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant Russia's Shoigu and GerasimovThe International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Valery Gerasimo...
Russia names new air force head, replacing rebellion-tied generalSurovikin was believed to have had close ties with Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, who mounted a rebellion in June s...
Who is Russia's 'General Armageddon' Sergei Surovikin, missing since mutiny?Russia had just been routed in the northeastern Kharkiv region. Within a month, he had ordered a withdrawal from the west bank of the Dnipr...
Russia's top general Gerasimov shown in a video, first time since failed June 24 mutinyValery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of Russia's armed forces, was shown by the defence ministry listening to a report about Ukrain...
Who is Russia's 'General Armageddon' Surovikin, missing since mutiny?Russian Army General Sergei Surovikin, known as "General Armageddon," has disappeared following a failed mutiny targeting senior military o...
Where are Russia's top generals? Rumours swirl after mercenary mutinySenior generals in Russia, including Armed forces chief of staff General Valery Gerasimov and General Sergei Surovikin, have disappeared fr...
Russia says military ties with China provide global 'stability'Joint Russian and Chinese military exercises should remain "an important axis" of this partnership, he continued. Gerasimov extended an inv...
Russia's military reforms respond to NATO's expansion, Ukraine: Chief of general staffValery Gerasimov, in his first public comments since his Jan. 11 appointment to the role, admitted also to problems with the mobilisation o...
Rifts in Russian military command seen amid Ukraine fightingFootage posted in the fall showed a Wagner contractor being beaten to death with a sledgehammer after allegedly defecting to the Ukrainian ...
Who is Russia's new war commander Gerasimov and why was he appointed?Many of the nationalist war bloggers who have licence from the Kremlin to criticise the conduct of the war have blamed Gerasimov for the fa...
Russia appoints top soldier Gerasimov to oversee Ukraine campaignRussian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu appointed Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov on Wednesday to oversee the military campaign ...
Top Russian military officer put in charge of Ukraine actionRussia's Defense Ministry said that Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, was named the new co...
Russia says it fires missiles from submarine, warns on NATO arms shipmentsThe defence ministry published video footage of the cruise missiles being launched from the Black Sea, and said they had hit unspecified gr...
Russian generals face peril as Ukraine invasion intensfiesWith Ukraine claiming Tuesday a second Russian general had been killed -- an assertion not confirmed by Moscow -- the peril faced by comman...
Second Russian general killed in war, Ukraine saysMajor General Vitaly Gerasimov, first deputy commander of Russia's 41st army, was killed on Monday, the Chief Directorate of Intelligence o...
Russian military chief speaks to NATO counterpartIt said Gerasimov relayed Moscow's concerns about NATO's buildup near Russian borders and the generals confirmed the need for joint steps t...