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The planned votes come after Russia suffered one of its biggest setbacks of the war.

The Kremlin is moving hastily to stage sham votes on annexing the regions of Ukraine its forces still control, after Kyiv’s military drove Russian troops from large areas of territory taken in their seven-month-old invasion.

Ukraine said its troops have marched farther east into territory recently abandoned by Russia, paving the way for a potential assault on Moscow's occupation forces in the Donbas region as Kyiv seeks more Western arms. "The occupiers are clearly in a panic," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a televised…

Russian-installed leaders in occupied areas of four Ukrainian regions on Tuesday set out plans for referendums on joining Russia, a challenge to the West that could sharply escalate the war and sparked condemnation from Ukraine and its allies.

A Russian mega-pop star’s criticism of President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has set off intense reactions on social media

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Small but symbolic victory in suburb of Lysychansk undermines one of Putin’s key war aims

Ukraine troops advance along the key Oskil River threatening Russian forces in the Donbas – Moscow’s prized territory.

Leftwing party’s future in balance after series of resignations, as former co-leader calls coalition ‘stupidest government in Europe’