North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a welcoming ceremony for an army engineering unit that had returned home after carrying out duties in Russia, the North's KCNA news agency reported on Saturday.

Experts say that Russian and Chinese support for Venezuela has largely dried up, with no prospect of real military or financial aid.

The U.N. passed the resolution on Thursday, with few countries—such as Russian ally Belarus, China and North Korea —voting against it. A representative of the U.S. delegation said its vote was not related to its stance on Ukraine or nuclear safety, but to the resolution's references to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Russia attacked two Ukrainian ports on Friday, damaging three Turkish-owned vessels including a ship carrying food supplies, Ukrainian officials and one ship owner said, days after Moscow threatened to cut "Ukraine off from the sea".

After almost four years of Russia's full-scale war, Kyiv is running out of cash, and needs an estimated €135.7bn over the next two years.

Russia is pushing to take over all of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, where one resident tells NPR that she feels her "life depends on how our guys at the front hold on."

The German foreign ministry’s announcement, which Russia denied, was the latest suggestion of growing Russian aggression in Europe.

The videos began to circulate on social media in early November: Ukrainian soldiers appearing to weep and surrender on the front lines