The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Answering Ukrainian calls for more long-range precision weapons, the US last week said it will send more High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Kyiv as part of a new $400 million weapons package. Can the new HIMARS turn the battle in the Donbas in Ukraine’s favour?

In eastern Ukraine, Russia continues its push to control the entire Donbas region. The strategic towns of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut have all seen intense bombardment in recent days, leaving Ukrainian forces to shore up their lines of defence. Our reporters Luke Shrago, Taline Oundjian and Achraf Abid spent the…

Vladimir Putin’s troops are being hampered by “ageing military vehicles and weapons” as they are ordered to seize more territory in Ukraine, British defence chiefs said on Thursday.

Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia far behind the frontlines on Thursday in an attack which Ukrainian officials called a war crime and said had killed at least 23 people, including three children.

In the epic heat of the Ukraine summer, the battle for Donbas — and maybe the outcome of the entire ground war this year — is at a pivotal stage. The Ukrainians have staged a tactical withdrawal from the last cities in Luhansk to “straighten the line”, establishing a narrower…

In the last specialist maternity ward still under Ukrainian control in the eastern Donbas region, the windows are packed with sandbags. Rooms used for births at the Perinatal Centre in the city of Pokrovsk follow the two-wall rule, which says the safest parts of a building are separated from the…

Turkey announced a deal with Ukraine, Russia and the United Nations on Wednesday aimed at resuming Ukrainian grain exports blocked by Russia, raising prospects for an end to a standoff that has exposed millions to the risk of starvation.

Residents say they have nowhere to go nor the means to leave as frontline encroaches on civilians

Ukraine launched long-range rocket attacks on Russian forces in southern Ukraine and destroyed an ammunition store, its military said, as Russia continued to pound the country's east.

Moscow's commanders have diverted many troops from the south to the east to join in the drive for the Donbas region of Ukraine - but Russian forces have to delay their drive to take over the area

Ukrainian miltiary intelligence said Tuesday that its troops had rescued five Ukrainians in a special operation in the southern Kherson region, which is occupied by pro-Russia forces. The rescue came as Ukraine said it struck Russian military units and an ammunitions depot in Kherson, where Moscow-backed authorities claimed seven people…