The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Macron and Scholz call for immediate ceasefire after Russia claims control of key Ukrainian town

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, thousands of people have fled the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In recent days, Ukraine’s national railway company has seen an influx of people who did not want to leave their country but who have finally resigned themselves to boarding evacuation trains. FRANCE…

The Russian president warned the French and German leaders it was ‘dangerous’ for the west to supply further weapons to Ukraine

UK Ministry of Defence says Russia ‘had likely captured’ strategically important town Lyman

The German chancellor’s office said Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz “insisted on an immediate ceasefire”

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold “serious direct negotiations” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to find “a diplomatic solution to the conflict” during a phone call Saturday, the chancellor’s office said. Putin told the two leaders that increasing arms supplies…

A Ukrainian official says forces may have to retreat from their last pocket in the Luhansk region to avoid being captured, as Russian troops press an advance in the east that has shifted the momentum of the three-month-old war.

Russia’s defence ministry says town of Lyman is now under full control of its forces, after days of fighting

US president says Putin trying to eliminate people’s identity, as governor of Luhansk says retreat in Sievierodonetsk may be needed to avoid becoming surrounded.