The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said Ukraine had started its long-expected counteroffensive, but that Kyiv had so far failed to attain its goals. Speaking at a Eurasian Economic Union conference in the Russian resort town of Sochi, Putin maintained that Ukraine still has the potential to attack. Follow our…

Wagner Group forces have begun to withdraw from the city of Bakhmut and will likely focus on other offensive operations in the Donbas region, according to British intelligence chiefs.

After a brutal 10-month slog that has killed tens of thousands on both sides, Ukrainian soldiers are striking back against Russian occupying forces in the Donbas. Tom Mutch reports from the frontline

A year after Russia’s all-out attack against its neighbour on February 24 2022, volumes trying to explain the conflict to the public begin to accumulate on my bookshelf. Think-tankers, political scientists and journalists have been at the forefront.

How many lives have been lost so far in Bakhmut? And why? Russia claims to have fully captured the eastern Donbas city while Ukraine spins it as part of the plan, with its forces elsewhere gaining ground to the north and south.

The Ukrainian president said the devastation in the destroyed Donbas city reminded him of pictures he had seen of Hiroshima after the nuclear attack.

The battle for the small city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region has become the longest and bloodiest of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Alisa Kovalenko had recorded the hopes and dreams of teenagers in the Donbas growing up with conflict rumbling in the background. Then full-scale war broke out

This film offers an unsparing view of how PoWs are treated when they return home – but it may not reflect the current mood

Jay Morais, from Bristol, was on Ukraine’s frontline including in intensive street fighting in the Donbas cities of Severodonetsk and Bakhmut and has now died in Kharkiv

In an interview with FRANCE 24, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin's Victory Day speech in Moscow on Tuesday, saying Putin celebrated the 1945 victory against the Nazis even while "attacking Kyiv", referring to a barrage of cruise missiles lobbed at the Ukrainian…