The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

Taking of Donetsk town would be a symbolic win for Vladimir Putin, but the scale of casualties may make it a pyrrhic victory

Russia claimed Moscow’s troops had taken Soledar, a small town in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, in one of their first victories in months. Kyiv rejected the claim.

KYIV: Ukraine said Friday it was resisting a "high intensity" Russian offensive in Soledar, a town in the eastern Donetsk region where Moscow was deploying more troops.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed that Ukrainian forces defending Bakhmut and Soledar in the east will be armed with everything they need to keep Russian troops at bay in some of the bloodiest battles of the war. Kyiv said its troops were fighting to retain control of the now-battered industrial…

A Russian-installed official in Ukraine's Donetsk region said on Thursday that "pockets of resistance" remained in the Ukrainian town of Soledar, undermining claims that the town had been taken by Russian forces.

Ukraine has been crying out for more heavy armour, longer range weapons and air defence systems to end the war.

Vladimir Putin's boys are only firing artillery at around 75 per cent of their wartime high, a massive drop, which could be due to dwindling stockpiles of rockets or a reassessment of tactics

The fate of a devastated salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine is hanging in the balance

Ukraine said on Thursday its troops were holding out despite heavy fighting on a battlefield littered with bodies in a salt mining town in eastern Ukraine, where Russian mercenaries have claimed Moscow's first significant gain in half a year.

British volunteers Chris Parry, 28, and Andrew Bagshaw, 48, went missing while travelling in eastern Donetsk where heavy fighting has been reported, with their families very worried

Aid worker Christopher Parry's mum Christine said she feels "very raw" after her son went missing in the town of Soledar in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine