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"Every time something goes viral, they're taken into custody ... and their dead bodies are being handed back to their families," Negar Mottahedeh told Newsweek.

Andrey Gurulyov said Putin was "a bit late" with mobilization and predicted that there would be more to come.

The report by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense comes shortly after Iran disputed reports that it supplied its Shahed-136 drones to Russia.

"I've never seen this many tests in this short of time," Jenny Town, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, told Newsweek.

North Korea hasn't added new combat aircraft to its arsenal in over 30 years, according to one recent report.

Russia, meanwhile, has reportedly fallen behind in its conscription goals.

Andrei Illarionov told Newsweek that "Putin's positions are quite strong now" and "there is no threat to his power."

Putin could "lash out" with nuclear weapons if cornered, an expert of the 1962 crisis told Newsweek. "Wars too often spiral out of control."

"Trump would be wise to stay out of the way," Austin Carson, an associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago, told Newsweek.

Russian state TV commentators and allies of President Vladimir Putin are questioning the current state of the war in Ukraine.

The clock is already at the closest point to doomsday as it has ever been. Could it move closer when it is reset?

The Taiwanese leader's comment comes after U.S. President Joe Biden suggested he would deploy American forces to defend the island from a Chinese invasion.