The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

Villagers describe withdrawal as most Russian soldiers fled but others were caught in Ukrainian attacks.

Zaporizhzhia, along with Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kherson, was one of the four regions annexed by Russia following sham referendums

Moscow says a truck explosion ignited a huge fire and severely damaged the Kerch bridge — Russia’s sole land link with annexed Crimea — and has vowed to find the perpetrators, without immediately blaming Ukraine.

Ukrainian authorities are just beginning to sift through the wreckage of the devastated city of Lyman in eastern Ukraine

Donetsk regional Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko says the exact number of bodies in the mass grave in Lyman is not yet known.

Separatist forces in the war-battered Donetsk region say they have reclaimed a series of villages near Bakhmut.

Key figures including Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin are using military defeats to undermine defence chief Sergei Shoigu

Vladimir Putin had barely finished his speech last Friday welcoming four new regions into Mother Russia, when his mouthpiece, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov admitted that they didn’t actually know where the borders of these regions were. “We will clarify everything today,” he said, when quizzed as to whether Russia…

Ukraine’s president makes comments during address to other European leaders

In week 32 of the war, Kyiv makes more advances in the east and south while Moscow pulls back forces from Crimea.

The bodies of two Russian soldiers lay bloating in trees on opposite sides of the road, close to the blasted hulks of the cars and the van in which Ukrainian army officers said the dead men’s unit was retreating into the eastern town of Lyman.