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Russian forces have had some success in the eastern frontline city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian military officials said, adding that their fighters were still holding on in a months-long battle in which both sides have suffered heavy casualties. In southern Ukraine, the United Nations nuclear watchdog chief said there had been …

The situation for Russian forces trying to capture the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut is “difficult,” because there are no signs Kyiv is ready to order a withdrawal of its troops, the Russian-installed leader of Ukraine’s Donetsk region said on Thursday. Russian forces – led by the private Wagner militia – …

Russian forces intensified attacks along front lines in eastern Ukraine on Friday as senior politicians and military leaders from around the world were due to meet in Germany with Ukrainian officials expected to address the security conference. Bolstered by tens of thousands of reservists, Russia has intensified ground assaults across …

What happened in the 51st week of Russia’s war in Ukraine? Ukraine faced its toughest week so far this year on the eastern front, where its defenders lost more ground to Russian forces but committed enormous resources to holding Bakhmut, a coal-mining town that has acquired emblematic importance to both …

President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned the situation on Ukraine’s eastern front lines is becoming tougher as Russian troops push for a significant battlefield victory in the region. The Ukrainian president made the remarks in a nightly video address on Saturday. Russian forces have been working to close their grip on …

Russia wants to impose a truce that would split Ukrainian lands, similar to how the Korean Peninsula is divided today, Aleksey Danilov, head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, has said, as quoted by the country’s media. His statement came after Moscow reiterated that peace negotiations are possible if …

Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Monday that 63 Russian soldiers had been killed in a Ukrainian New Year’s Eve attack on their quarters in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine’s Donetsk province. Footage posted online showed a building purported to be a vocational college in the town of Makiivka, the twin …

Russia says its forces have left a key town in eastern Ukraine to avoid being surrounded by the Ukrainian army, and moved to “more advantageous frontiers.” Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday the withdrawal from the strategic city of Lyman was “due to the risk to be encircled.” “In connection …

The measure will apply to members of the reserve forces and those with military experience Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization during an address to the nation on Wednesday morning. He said the Defense Ministry had recommended drawing military reservists into active service as the country faces …

UKRAINE’S ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION JOINS RUSSIA ANNEXATION VOTES The Russian-held Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia, home to Europe’s largest nuclear plant, will join three other occupied territories in holding votes on becoming part of Russia, a pro-Moscow official said Tuesday. “Today I signed an order on the holding of a referendum on …

The United States is expected to announce as early as Wednesday a new security assistance package for Ukraine of about $3 billion, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. The $3 billion weapons assistance package would be the largest that Washington has generated for Ukraine in the six months since Russian …

Russian forces were conducting an all-out assault on Tuesday to encircle Ukrainian troops in twin cities straddling a river in eastern Ukraine, a battle that could determine the success or failure of Moscow’s main campaign in the east. Exactly three months after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces into Ukraine, …

Russia pummelled positions in the east of Ukraine on Sunday, its defence ministry said, as it sought to encircle Ukrainian forces in the battle for Donbas and fend off a counteroffensive around the strategic Russian-controlled city of Izium. At a meeting in Germany, the secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty …

Heavy fighting is underway for Severodonetsk, formerly an industrial city of 100,000 people, and Russian troops are attempting to cut it off.

Russian forces have almost encircled Severodonetsk, the easternmost city in Ukraine held by Kyiv, and are trying to storm it, a local official said Friday.

The Ukrainian army is locked in a conflict with breakaway fighters in Donetsk and Lugansk that erupted after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. Two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 10 others wounded in the country’s war-torn east as clashes tick back up, the army said on Sunday. …

Nine miners plummeted to their deaths and another 19 received injuries when a steel rope of a cage broke at a coal mine in Ukraine’s separatist-controlled east, local authorities said on Tuesday. The workers were descending into the mine shaft in the town of Voznesenovka in the eastern Lugansk region …

Russia-backed separatists have accused the Ukrainian army of killing four and injuring five of their troops as a result of shelling in the war-torn east of the country.