The Latest Breaking News from Avdiivka

A huge cloud of smoke could be seen rising into the air on Saturday after an explosion in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, which houses a chemical plant, the Russian news agency RIA quoted one of its reporters as saying.

Pro-Russian fighters have claimed to have seized new territory from the Ukrainian Army as they advance on the city of Avdiivka.

Graphic video footage shows the moment that pro-Russian combatants fire a volley of thermobaric missiles at Ukrainian targets near the city of Avdiivka.

This is the moment pro-Russian troops load a Hyacinth-B towed field gun and fire missiles at Ukrainian targets near the city of Avdiivka.

The pro-Russian DPR fires a flurry of missiles at Ukrainian targets and claims to take new turf

This is the moment pro-Russian Donetsk fighters load up howitzers and shell Ukrainian targets.

The attack was carried out on the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant in the city of Avdiivka, in Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine's largest steelmaker, Metinvest, said on Wednesday it had offered to evacuate staff from its coking plant in the eastern frontline city of Avdiivka after 10 workers were killed in Russian shelling.

At least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded by Russian shelling of a coking plant in the city of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, the regional governor said.

AVDIIVKA, Ukraine — Moscow again on Tuesday demanded the surrender of holdout Ukrainian forces in the besieged southern port of Mariupol and bombardment boomed across the country’s east in what Russia and Ukraine are calling a major new phase of the ferocious nearly 8-week-old war.

AVDIIVKA, Ukraine — Determined to seize control of Ukraine’s industrial heartland, Russia on Tuesday intensified its assaults along a more than 300-mile-long front line in the country’s east, and again gave a fruitless surrender ultimatum to Ukrainian forces in the besieged southern port of Mariupol.