A former Melbourne school teacher caught fighting as part of Ukraine's foreign legion has become the butt of cruel jokes while languishing in a Russian jail.
North Korea and Russia are deepening their military cooperation, as Pyongyang ramps up the supply of arms to Moscow for its war in Ukraine and receives much needed cash and oil from the Kremlin in return.
Slovakia is dependent on gas passing through neighbouring Ukraine, and it has ramped up efforts to maintain those flows from 2025, after a five-year agreement expires ...