Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that the rigours of nearly three years of war did not allow for changes in mobilisation rules because if soldiers left for home en masse, Russian President Vladimir Putin "will kill us all".

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Soldiers from North Korea fighting on behalf of Moscow have reportedly pulled back from the frontline in Russia's Kursk region.

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Troops from North Korea appear to have fallen back from Russia's frontline after suffering heavy losses when engaging Ukrainian forces.

Russian forces launched more than a hundred drones against Ukraine. Air defense managed to destroy 57 of them, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. In total, the enemy launched 104 UAVs of the Shahed type and various types of decoy drones from the directions of the Russian cities of Kursk,