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The "liberation" of Ukraine's Donbas is an "unconditional priority" for Moscow, while other Ukrainian territories should decide their future on their own, RIA news agency cited Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Sunday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday made his first trip to the country's war-torn east since the launch of Moscow's invasion, as Russian forces tightened their grip around key cities in the Donbas region. Zelensky's office posted a video on Telegram of him wearing a bullet-proof vest and being shown…

Russian and Ukrainian troops engaged in close-quarter combat in an eastern Ukraine city Sunday as Moscow’s soldiers, supported by intense shelling, attempted to gain strategic footholds in the region while facing fierce Ukrainian resistance. Ukrainian regional officials reported that Russian forces were "storming" the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk, where the…

Russian forces engaged in an all-out battle in eastern Ukraine have captured the strategic town of Lyman and surrounded a key industrial center, Moscow has claimed. But a Ukrainian official has denied that the city of Severodonetsk -- the focus of weeks of fierce fighting -- has been encircled, saying…

Russia claims to have overrun a key rail hub in Ukraine while its troops fight defenders in the streets of another eastern city

The European Union proposed banning seaborne oil from Russia while delaying restrictions on imports from a key pipeline in an effort to satisfy Hungarian objections and clinch an agreement on a stalled sanctions package that would target Moscow for its war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian leaders visits troops on the front lines in the northeastern Kharkiv region.

Kyiv has been unable to export grain supplies due to Russia’s invasion, which has sent global food prices soaring.

Finland plans to join NATO, but beneath the surface of the famously neutral nation is a country scarred by painful memories of war, and a fear of history repeating itself.