To fill an urgent labor shortage, the Kremlin has been recruiting women from places like Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, as well as Sri Lanka.

Russia unleashed a deadly missile and drone assault against civilian and infrastructure targets across Ukraine, killing 9 people and injuring dozens as President Volodymyr Zelensky was away canvassing support in Europe.

More than 140 unmanned aerial vehicles and 33 ground robotic systems made in Ukraine have been approved for use by the Defence Forces of Ukraine in the first nine months of 2024. Source: Colonel Volodymyr Rochniak,

Ukrainian Navy personnel have destroyed four Russian Shahed drones in the south on the night of 8-9 October. Source: Ukrainian Navy on Telegram Quote: "The assets and personnel of the Ukrainian Navy downed four enemy Shahed-136 kamikaze drones in Ukraine's south during a Russian aerial attack last night.

With the domestic workforce drained by war and emigration, a facility in Tartarstan is turning to unwitting labourers drawn in via social media. View on euronews

The Russians spectacularly lost their most advanced experimental combat drone. They had to shoot down the S-70 themselves after it crossed the Ukrainian front line, as they clearly lost control of it.