Russian forces have claimed a breakthrough in capturing two settlements in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region as an onslaught of overnight bombardment across Ukraine killed six people.The Russian Defence Ministry announced the capture of Petropavlivka,

the Defense Ministry said MOSCOW, January 19. /TASS/. The Russian army has liberated the settlement of Vozdvizhenka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Defense Ministry reported. "As a result of active assault actions by a unit of Battlegroup ...

Russia's Defense Ministry claimed on Jan. 12 that its forces had captured the village of Yantarne in Donetsk Oblast and Kalynove in Kharkiv Oblast.

Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine's army now has roughly 880,000 soldiers, while approximately 600,000 Russian troops are fighting against Kyiv's forces.

Once home to 18,000 people, this bombed-out town has been turned into rubble over the past few months. The question now is: will it open the road to Pokrovsk, a major logistics hub for Ukraine in the eastern front?

A new form of warfare may have been used by Ukrainian forces in Donetsk as an owl downed a Russian drone in the region.

Russian forces have reportedly made advancements near eight settlements in Donetsk Oblast, as confirmed by the DeepState analytical project. These include Chasiv Yar, Toretsk, Yantarne, Novovasylivka,

Donetsk region. Russian shelling killed one resident and wounded seven others in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk oblast, or region, on Jan. 11. Kherson region. A 56-year-old woman died at the hospital on Jan. 11, succumbing to injuries sustained in last week's Russian drone strike on a bus station in the southern city of Kherson.

"The situation in Kurakhove is really quite difficult right now, because a significant part of the city has been destroyed," Khortytsia group of forces spokesperson Viktor Trehubov said on national television Jan.

"Among them are officers, sergeants, and privates from motorized rifle units, Marines, airborne troops, and other units, coming from various Russian regions and the occupied city of Sevastopol," the Airborne Assault Troops' press service said.

Russia and Ukraine traded attacks in the Kursk region this week as Moscow looks to continue clawing back its territory. Meanwhile, Russian forces appear to have taken the eastern city of Kurakhove but failed to encircle the Ukrainian forces there.

Analysts from the DeepState project updated their map on the night of 5-6 January, reporting that Russian forces had advanced in a number of settlements in Donetsk Oblast. Fierce fighting continues in Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, where the line of contact has ...