The Defence Minister of Russia, Belousov, met with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, reaching an agreement to establish the Russia-North Korea military cooperation on a 'sustainable, long-term basis.' This formalizes a wartime partnership that has already seen thousands of North Korean soldiers deployed to support Russian troops in Ukraine.

The North Korean dictator paid tribute to soldiers who "unhesitatingly opted for self-blasting, suicide attack" in order to avoid capture.

Ukraine used interceptor systems to shoot down more than 33,000 Russian drones of various types in March, a record monthly figure since Moscow launched its all-out invasion more than four years ago, U...