The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

Battle for Severodonetsk ‘terrifying’, says Volodymyr Zelensky

Volodymyr Zelensky has said the battle for Severodonetsk is “terrifying”.

Evening Standard · Jun 13, 2022

Ukraine latest updates: Moscow bans dozens of UK citizens

Ukraine news from June 14: Individuals banned due to ‘false and one-sided information’ about war, foreign ministry says.

Al Jazeera · Jun 13, 2022

Kremlin pledges support after Donbas separatist leader calls for more Russian forces

Russia's main goal of its military operation in Ukraine is to protect the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics, the Kremlin said on Monday, after the leader of one of the separatist regions asked for additional forces from Moscow.

Reuters · Jun 13, 2022

Police investigating killings of 12,000 Ukrainians in war

Ukraine's national police chief says authorities are investigating the killings of more than 12,000 Ukrainians nationwide in the war Russia is waging

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2022

Moroccan sentenced to death in Donetsk has Ukrainian nationality, not a mercenary - father

The father of a Moroccan man sentenced to death by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) on mercenary charges said his son should be treated as a prisoner of war as he is a Ukrainian national who handed himself in voluntarily.

Reuters · Jun 13, 2022

Five killed, 22 injured in Ukrainian artillery attacks in Donetsk, Russian-backed separatists say

(This Jun.13 story refiles to fix typo in headline)

Reuters · Jun 13, 2022

Russian state TV gloats over sham ruling of Brit fighters condemned to death

Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner were last week sentenced to death by a sham trial in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, leading to gloating by the Kremlin's state TV

Daily Mirror · Jun 13, 2022

Bomb Experts Bury Unexploded Missiles And Carry Out Controlled Explosion

This is the moment Ukrainian bomb experts bury a pile of unexploded missiles and military equipment and carry out a controlled explosion.

Zenger · Jun 13, 2022

Ukrainian, Russian Forces Fight for 'Every Meter' in Severodonetsk

Ukrainian and Russian forces were fighting for "literally every meter" in Severodonetsk, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as fighting intensified in an eastern region where the country's top commander said the land "is covered in blood". Severodonetsk and nearby Lysychansk have been targeted for weeks as the last areas in the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jun 13, 2022

Amid fierce fighting, Russian forces cut last Sievierodonetsk escape route

Russian forces tightened their grip on the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday, a Ukrainian official said, cutting off the last routes for evacuating citizens in a scene that echoed last month's siege of the port of Mariupol.

Reuters · Jun 13, 2022