The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

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Ukrainians living in the path of Russia's invasion in the eastern Donetsk region are also fighting personal battles as the front line moves closer

Paul Urey, 45, died in captivity last Sunday claim pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk region of Ukraine and human rights campaigner Vladimir Osechkin said he was "tortured to death"

Rescue teams with sniffer dogs combed through debris in a central Ukrainian city on Friday looking for people still missing after Russia’s devastating missile strike a day earlier that killed at least 23

Russian forces have been slowly advancing westwards following shelling and probing assaults towards the town of Siversk in Ukraine's Donetsk region from Lysychansk, Britain's defence ministry said on Friday.

Kyiv said Wednesday it was severing relations with North Korea, as Pyongyang confirmed it was formally recognizing two self-proclaimed pro-Russian republics in eastern Ukraine. North Korea's recognition of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic came after another Russian ally, Syria, made the same move last month, AFP…

Some are too terrified to leave, others defiant in the face of relentless shelling. As the front lines draw closer, some Ukrainians still reject evacuation.

Russian and proxy forces have entered the town of Siversk in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Russian state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday.

This video montage shows the intense fighting that took place in the now seized Ukrainian cities of Rubizhne and Sievierodonetsk.