The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

While G20 foreign ministers were meeting in Bali, Indonesia, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, threatened further escalation in his war against Ukraine, announcing to the world that “by and large, we have not started anything in earnest yet”. What he meant became quickly clear when a missile attack hit an…

Video on social media showed a massive explosion at the ammunition depot in Russian-held Nova Kakhovka

Death toll from strike on Donetsk town of Chasiv Yar has risen to 34, local official says, as intense battles rage across region.

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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…

Rescue teams continue to retrieve bodies from rubble of five-storey apartment block, with victim aged nine among latest confirmed dead

Ukraine news from July 12: UN human rights office says 5,024 people killed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began.

Ukraine is calling on the West for new tough sanctions on Russia and to step up its supplies of heavy weaponry to punish Moscow for its citizenship decree.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.