The NC-13 strike company's commander told Business Insider that the drone's primary objective was to suppress Russian troops from advancing for weeks.

Ukraine has revealed that the "death" of top commander Denis Kapustin was in fact an elaborate hoax. The operation was designed to thwart a genuine assassination attempt ordered by Moscow. Mr Kapustin,

Denis Kapustin, a far-right military commander and founder of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), a battalion of far-right Russians who fight for Ukraine against Putin, was reported to have been killed in a drone strike in Zaporizhia on December 27 after spending months atop the Kremlin’s most wanted list.

Russian opposition representative Leonid Volkov, who lives in Lithuania, has called Ukrainian soldiers and officials Nazis. The country's Migration Service will decide whether to extend his residence permit.

Ukraine faked the death of Denis Kapustin, a Russian commander fighting for Ukraine, to trick Russia into paying a bounty of $500,000 and identify Russian agents plotting his assassination, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency has said.

EADaily, January 1st, 2026. The commander of the RDK * Denis Kapustin * * is alive, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine said on January 1.

VLADIMIR Putin paid half a million dollars for the assassination of Russian rebel Denis Kapustin – but the tyrant was tricked. The Kremlin celebrated when news broke that Kapustin, who defied the

Over the past week, Ukraine’s top military commander has given his most detailed assessment yet of the fight to halt Russia’s invasion. This wasn’t prompted by any sudden battlefield reversal. It reflects,

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine approaches its fifth year, the character of the war continues to evolve into a technical struggle shaped by drones, electronic warfare, and the ability to strike at depth.