The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

World Bank announces additional $4.5bn in Ukraine aid – as it happened

Announcement brings financial aid from US to $8.5bn; Ukraine says staff at plant working under ‘barrel of Russian guns’

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2022

Russia highly likely deploying anti-personnel mines in Donbas - UK

Russia is highly likely to be deploying anti-personnel mines along its defensive lines in the Donbas region of Ukraine, Britain said on Monday, without citing evidence.

Reuters · Aug 8, 2022

Ukraine, Russia trade blame for nuclear plant shelling amid global alarm

Kyiv and Moscow traded blame on Monday for the weekend shelling of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex amid international alarm that their battle for control of the plant could trigger catastrophe.

Reuters · Aug 8, 2022

Ukraine seeks to retake the south, tying down Russian forces

Even as the Russian war machine crawls across Ukraine’s east, trying to achieve the Kremlin’s goal of securing a full control over the country’s industrial heartland of the Donbas, Ukrainian forces are scaling up attacks to reclaim territory in the south

The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2022

Dozens dead in Ukraine prison blast as both sides trade blame

Ukraine says Russia trying to hide fact that Ukrainian prisoners of war were ‘tortured and murdered’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2022

Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 156 of the invasion

Ukraine steps up campaign to retake Russian-controlled regions in south; Kyiv accuses Russia of a war crime over the deaths of more than 40 prisoners of war

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2022

Commentary: A Ukrainian postwar recovery plan needs specifics now

While it is premature to declare Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over, with Ukrainians dying in the Donbas region every day, it is critical to lay the foundation for what a postwar Ukraine would look like.

Chicago Tribune · Jul 28, 2022

Russia ‘has definitively lost initiative’ in battle for Donbas

It is not thought Moscow will take the Ukrainian eastern industrial heartland in the ‘immediate future’.

The Independent UK · Jul 27, 2022

Russian firm Wagner made tactical advances in Donbas - UK intelligence

Russian private military firm Wagner has likely made tactical advances in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, British military intelligence said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Jul 27, 2022

The ‘most-hunted weapon in all of Ukraine’: How HIMARS stalled Russia’s brutal advance

The mobile artillery system has been credited with halting Russia’s advance, but can it turn the tide? Richard Hall reports.

The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2022