Donald Trump has blamed the US, and more specifically Joe Biden, for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The president-elect was outlining his plan for his second administration on Tuesday when he decided to express some sympathy with the Russian dictator almost three years after Putin began the bloody war.

Kyiv has said that Russia is "getting what it deserves" after Ukraine launched a new offensive in Kursk over the weekend.

Russian losses in Ukraine are helping fuel a demographic timebomb that could see the country’s population reduced by half by the end of the century, experts have told the Kyiv Independent. “The impact on Russian society is devastating,

Months after losing ground, Ukraine recently launched a counterattack in the Kursk region, combatting Russian forces.