Mr Putin has already announced plans to increase the size of Russia’s active armed forces to 1.5 million troops by 2026, with mass crucial to the Kremlin’s approach to war. Earlier this week ...

Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy head of GUR, said Russia fears an extended war would confine it to "forever remain a regional ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven years ago, when a joint bid by the United States, Canada and Mexico was awarded the 2026 World Cup, ...

Poland wants to spend 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence in 2026, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said ...

Pointing to concerns about the last two World Cups, in Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022, he noted those still attracted attendance totals above 3 million ... and Russia’s war in Ukraine have ...