Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday awarded a soldier with the country’s highest honour for bravery after a widely posted video showed him killing a Ukrainian opponent in hand-to-hand combat.

Russian troops have been in control ... In some cases, Ukrainian special forces engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy ...

A NOTORIOUS Russian MMA fighter and convicted killer rapist has been freed from jail to bolster Putin’s struggling war effort ...

Ukrainian troops engaged in hand-to-hand combat as they drove Russian forces out of a huge processing plant in the town of ...