The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

The strikes come as Russia intensifies its attacks in the east and claims to capture the contested village of Khromove.

Several officials appeared to leave OSCE ministers’ meeting while Sergei Lavrov spoke after several delegations raised concern over his presence

Four more people may be under the rubble, including a child, authorities said

Russian forces were ramping up attacks in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, Moscow and Kyiv said, as they vie to secure elusive territorial gains before the end of the year.

Russian authorities say that Ukraine tried to attack Moscow with dozens of drones

Russia says its air defenses intercepted at least 24 Ukrainian drones a day after it launched its largest drone strike on the Ukrainian capital of the war.

Moscow being forced to rely more heavily on penal recruits and mobilised reservists, Kyiv claims

Ukraine announces ‘foothold’ on left bank of Dnipro River in Kherson region

Russia worse off after losses from Avdiivka battle, says Zelenskiy; occupiers erasing Ukrainian literature in Donetsk and Luhansk

Cinematographer Yaroslav Pilunskiy and film editor Ivan Bannikov are part of drone unit fighting Russians in Donetsk

For the past month, the world’s attention has reeled at the violence in Israel and Gaza. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine has ground on, day by day, metre by metre. Fierce fighting has continued in the north-eastern Donetsk region as a Russian offensive has attempted – thus far unsuccessfully –…