The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Antoni Lallican, an award-winning French photographer on assignment in Ukraine, died in a drone attack in the eastern Donbas region on Friday, press groups have announced. It is the first time a journalist has been killed by a drone in Ukraine in more than three years of war with Russia.

French President Emmanuel Macron was quick to react to the announcement, praising and expressing his condolences to the late journalist in a post on X.

Locals who sided with pro-Russian separatists become ideologically closer to Ukraine as the war rumbles on.

Several people were injured after Russian missiles and drones struck various targets in the northern Sumy region, as the Kremlin intensifies its aerial bombardment of Ukraine despite ongoing US-led peace efforts.

A film screenplay is being written about Ukrainian soccer club Shakhtar Donetsk’s 2022 season during Russia’s full military invasion of its home Donbas region

Poland's PM Tusk says ‘huge number’ of drones entered Polish airspace during major attack on western Ukraine

Vladimir Putin told the US he will occupy the Donbas region of Ukraine by the end of 2025, Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed.

Maryna Tereshchenko still remembers the smell of the apricot trees in her Donbas home town, and clings to the hope that she will one day be able to return to east Ukraine.

Russia is demanding Ukraine cede all of its eastern Donbas region, but would be willing to freeze the conflict in the south of the country along current front lines, Turkey's top diplomat has said.

The move puts Ukraine's industrial heartland at risk, while analysts warned it signals Moscow's intent to stretch Ukraine's defenses across multiple fronts beyond Donbas.

Annie Lewis Marffy was taking aid supplies to Kramatorsk in the contested Donbas region.