Ukraine's top general wants foreigners to fill up to half its assault and infantry units — screened and delivered by private recruiting firms, paid for each one who enlists. "We are opening the market for the recruitment of foreigners,

June 8 (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces have recaptured more than 600 square km of territory so far this year, Ukraine's top military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Monday, the latest sign of shifting momentum after years of slow but relentless Russian gains.

Olha Reshetylova has been tasked by the government with overseeing soldiers’ rights. Some commanders resent her, but she says her work makes the armed forces stronger.

Ukraine will hike military wages and seek to recruit more fighters abroad, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday, as the army faces a manpower

Ukraine's General Staff said that its forces had hit an oil preparation and pumping station overnight in Russia's Volgograd region.

Russia’s ballistic-missile attacks against Ukraine have grown in ferocity and magnitude in recent weeks because Russian military planners are exploiting one of Ukraine’s greatest weaknesses: The Ukrainian military does not have enough Patriot missile interceptors to keep up with the barrages.

Russia is using small-team infiltrations and drone corridors to penetrate Ukrainian kill zones, but these tactics are unlikely to deliver a decisive breakthrough.

Ukraine’s army has recaptured more than 230 square miles of territory so far this year, Kyiv’s military chief confirmed Monday as momentum continues to shift against Russia’s more than four-year-old invasion.