The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Jay Morais, from Bristol, was on Ukraine’s frontline including in intensive street fighting in the Donbas cities of Severodonetsk and Bakhmut and has now died in Kharkiv

In an interview with FRANCE 24, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin's Victory Day speech in Moscow on Tuesday, saying Putin celebrated the 1945 victory against the Nazis even while "attacking Kyiv", referring to a barrage of cruise missiles lobbed at the Ukrainian…

US officials say Russian attempted offensive in Donbas ‘has failed’ and come at ‘terrible cost’

For many, switching from Russian to the Ukrainian language is an act of resistance.

Russian forces pounded the city of Bakhmut, the months-old focal point of their attempts to capture the eastern Ukrainian industrial region of Donbas, and the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary force said Ukrainian troops were pouring in ahead of an "inevitable" counter-offensive.

“Donbass Devushka” is a prominent social media account implicated in the recent leak of classified documents on the Ukraine war. The pro-Kremlin mouthpiece, which claims to be run by a Russian woman in the occupied city of Luhansk, is in fact run by a pro-Russian former US military officer.

Documenting the drivers, railway workers and passengers on Europe’s third largest rail network during an extraordinary year in which Ukraine defied Russia’s plan to conquer the country

As Ukraine emerges from a brutal winter, its armed forces prepare for an apparent major counteroffensive as Russia suffers battlefield losses in Donbas, and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton licks his wounds after the crushing loss to Labor in Saturday’s Aston byelection in Victoria.

Russia’s winter offensive to achieve total control over the Donbas “has failed”, 80 days since it started, according to Britain’s ministry of defence.

Kuba Stasiak, a young volunteer from Poland, has helped evacuate an estimated 200 Ukrainian civilians from Bakhmut and other besieged cities in Ukraine. But volunteers like him face psychological hurdles as well as practical ones: How do you convince someone it is time to leave everything behind?

Ukrainian forces have managed to blunt Russia's offensive in and around the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut, where the situation is stabilizing, commander in chief General Valery Zaluzhniy said on Saturday. Separately, Britain's defense ministry said the months-long Russian assault on the city had stalled, mainly as a result of…