The Latest Breaking News from Kramatorsk

Officers in Donetsk say spies pass on coordinates or photographs of targets via Telegram in exchange for cash

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials said Monday that Russia began its long-anticipated assault to seize control of their country’s eastern industrial heartland, launching a ground assault along a nearly 300-mile front while pounding the nation, including the western city of Lviv, with a deadly barrage of missile strikes.

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Ukraine officials said Monday that Russia began its long-anticipated assault to seize control of their country’s eastern industrial heartland, launching a ground assault along a nearly 300-mile front while pounding the nation, including the western city of Lviv, with a deadly barrage of missile strikes.

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — It came at exactly 3 a.m. Monday: a flash of light streaking over the city’s darkened streets, then the massive blast, shaking walls, rattling windows and waking those few who had managed an already-troubled sleep.

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Russia has launched its long-anticipated assault to seize control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff warns "the second phase of the war has started", amid Russian bombardments against cities across the country.

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Missile strikes on Monday killed seven people in Lviv, a western Ukrainian city once considered a relative safe haven, local officials said, as Russian forces pressed ahead with their drive to seize the strategic southern port city of Mariupol, where Ukraine has vowed that desperate defenders would…

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Missile strikes on Monday killed seven people in Lviv, a western Ukrainian city once considered a relative safe haven, local officials said, as Russian forces pressed ahead with their drive to seize the strategic southern port city of Mariupol, where Ukraine has vowed that desperate defenders would…

Support for Putin’s actions has fallen dramatically across the Donbas region his forces are expected to put under new attack

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Russia stepped up its attacks on numerous fronts in Ukraine on Saturday, moving deeper into the besieged southern port of Mariupol and striking a suburb of Kyiv as well as an area near the major western city of Lviv as Ukraine endured what many here believe is…

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Powerful blasts rocked the outskirts of Ukraine’s capital and reverberated near the main city in the country’s west on Saturday as Ukraine braced for expected reprisal attacks fueled by Russia’s fury over the loss of the flagship of its Black Sea fleet.