Russian forces have claimed a breakthrough in capturing two settlements in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region as an onslaught of overnight bombardment across Ukraine killed six people.The Russian Defence Ministry announced the capture of Petropavlivka,

The analysts of the DeepState project reported in the late evening of 18 January that Russia has advanced in multiple settlements in Donetsk Oblast, including Velyka Novosilka. DeepState noted that Russian troops have started storming some areas.

Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday the army had gained control of the settlement of Shevchenko, near the logistical centre of Pokrovsk, a key Russian target in its advance through Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.

Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine's army now has roughly 880,000 soldiers, while approximately 600,000 Russian troops are fighting against Kyiv's forces.

A road accident claimed the lives of three people in the occupied town of Ilovaisk in Donetsk Oblast on Sunday, 12 January. Source: Novyny Donbasu, a local news outlet, citing Russian occupying authorities Details: A bus travelling from Krasnodar to Donetsk got into an accident at 05:30.

Russia's defense ministry says its troops have taken control of a logistics support base of Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine. It asserts that the move will help strengthen its offensive in Donetsk.

Russia has been moving through Toretsk for many months, claiming more of the Donetsk city that has been a Ukrainian stronghold and the gateway to the logistics hub of Kostiantynivka, to the ...

Once home to 18,000 people, this bombed-out town has been turned into rubble over the past few months. The question now is: will it open the road to Pokrovsk, a major logistics hub for Ukraine in the eastern front?

Russia said Tuesday it had re-captured two Ukrainian villages in the eastern Donetsk region that Kyiv had wrested back from Russian control earlier in the conflict.

Russia has seized control of some of Ukraine’s prized lithium reserves since it launched its all-out invasion in 2022, potentially depriving Kyiv of a key economic resource.

Russia's Defence Ministry on Saturday said its forces took control of two more settlements in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, the latest in a series of