The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

Ukrainian soldiers have been fighting advancing Russian forces near the city in the eastern Donbas region.

Ukrainian authorities have announced further rolling blackouts in and around the country’s largest cities amid ongoing Russian strikes targeting energy infrastructure

DONETSK REGION (Ukraine) (AFP) - With "tactical socks", NATO standard sleeping bags and even a sauna, a unit of soldiers from Ukraine's 5th brigade is preparing for winter in a trench on the eastern front.

Ukraine’s presidential office says at least seven civilians have been killed and three others wounded in the latest Russian shelling of the eastern Donetsk region

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Russia's troops fought Thursday to regain lost ground in areas of Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin has illegally annexed while Moscow tried to pound the invaded country into submission with more missile and drone attacks on critical infrastructure. Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions near Bilohorivka, a village in the…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday declared martial law in four regions of Ukraine recently annexed by Moscow. The upper house of Russia’s parliament quickly endorsed Putin’s decision to impose martial law in the annexed Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he was introducing martial law in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed last month as its own territory but is struggling to defend from Ukrainian advances.

Driven back in other areas, Russian forces are bombarding this part of Ukraine, with towns and villages caught in the crossfire, as Kim Sengupta reports from Krasnohorivka