The Latest Breaking News from Luhansk

Despite the Ukrainian army's rapid counter-offensive, Russian forces still occupy vast swathes of Ukraine, including much of Donetsk and Luhansk, the two regions that make up the Donbas. Cities in the Ukrainian-held parts of the Donetsk region suffer regular shelling, suffering significant damage to infrastructure and putting local people in…

Hand on heart, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watched his country’s flag rise Wednesday above the recaptured city of Izium, making a rare foray outside the capital while highlighting Moscow’s embarrassing retreat from a Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russian forces left the war-scarred city last week as Kyiv's soldiers pressed a stunning advance…

Svitlana tears up thinking of the bombing that leveled her son Illia's school in Lysychansk, a city in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk now occupied by Russian forces, but she is determined to ensure the eighth-grader continues his studies.

After defecting the to the Moscow-based Luhansk People's Republic, former internal security service officer Askyar Laishev died after being attacked by resistance officers

Western allies provided Ukraine enough assistance to deprive Russia of victory but not to defeat it, analysts say.

As the war in Ukraine nears its six-month mark, Russia faces multiple problems in the territory it has taken over

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 25 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine’s forces are embarking on a counteroffensive in the Russian-occupied southern region of Kherson

The bridge is largely unusable for military purposes after it was struck by Ukrainian precision strikes