The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

Russian forces are focusing on two cities in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, pounding Ukrainian positions with air strikes.

Russian forces are pressing attacks in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, focusing on two cities and pounding Ukrainian positions with air strikes and artillery barrages, Kyiv said on Monday. The commander of Ukraine's ground forces said the Russians were destroying buildings and positions in besieged Bakhmut in what he called "scorched…

Ukraine struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol deep behind front lines on Wednesday amid growing talk from Kyiv of a counterassault against Russian forces worn out by a failed winter offensive.

Ukrainian forces killed two civilians late on Monday when they shelled an apartment building in the Russian-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, Russian-installed officials said on Tuesday.

Officials in Ukraine say two people were killed and 29 wounded when Russian forces shelled the Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, in the partially occupied eastern Donetsk region

Russia is turning Ukraine's Avdiivka into "a place from post-apocalyptic movies", intensifying shelling and forcing a nearly full shutdown of the frontline city, the top local official said on Sunday.

Russian mercenaries were the only element of Moscow’s forces making any progress in the 55th week of the war in Ukraine.

Both sides claim to have killed huge numbers of enemy soldiers, but have not given details of their own casualties

Ukrainian forces faced relentless Russian attacks on Bakhmut in its eastern Donetsk region on Monday, with both sides reporting mounting enemy casualties as they battled across a small river that bisects the ruined town and now marks the front line. The situation in the nearly deserted town was difficult, the…