Demand for Patriot air defense systems and their interceptor missiles is "growing significantly," a RUSI research fellow said.

A halt to supplies of Patriot interceptor missiles is a blow to the embattled country’s efforts to withstand Russia’s mounting and increasingly deadly aerial assaults.

The suspension includes air defense interceptors, and it will directly affect Ukraine’s ability to fend off escalating Russian air assaults.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has taken full control of Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, more than three years after President Vladimir Putin ordered thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian-backed head of the region told Russian state television.

A Russia-appointed official in Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region says that Moscow’s forces have overrun all of it.

KYIV - A Russian-appointed official has claimed that Moscow's forces now fully occupy Ukraine's Luhansk region, one of the four territories illegally annexed by Russia in 2022. If true, this marks the first region completely seized after more than three years of war.