The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

In Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, residents have clung on to hope until the bitter end. Now many are saying goodbye to their homes

Moscow says it has captured another village in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. What we know on day 940

A Russian strike on Red Cross vehicles in eastern Ukraine killed three people, the country's president Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday.

Authorities say the key eastern Ukraine city of Pokrovsk is without a drinking water supply or natural gas for cooking and heating as the Russian army’s attritional slog across the Donetsk region lays waste to public infrastructure and forces civilians to flee their homes

Maps of the frontline in Ukraine indicate that Russian forces are pushing towards the city of Pokrovsk

Russia on Sunday said its forces had advanced in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv reported deadly air attacks and urged the West to allow it to carry out more retaliatory strikes inside Russia.

Three men died in town of Kostyantynivka, two in city of Toretsk; CIA boss says west should not fear Russian nuclear threats. What we know on day 928

Russian troops are inching ever close to Ukraine’s eastern city of Pokrovsk, a vital logistical hub for Kyiv’s outgunned and outnumbered forces, leading some analysts to question the wisdom of a Ukrainian lightning offensive on Russian soil that was intended to distract Moscow from its Donbas push.

Ukraine’s diversion of troops for the Kursk attack has left parts of Donetsk vulnerable, say analysts.