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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russia's army has "fully occupied" the key Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk after weeks of fighting, its mayor said, as Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to send nuclear-capable missiles to Belarus within months.

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russia's army has "fully occupied" the key Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk after weeks of fighting, its mayor said Saturday, as Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would be able to send nuclear-capable missiles to Belarus within months.

Heavy street fighting continues and airstrikes threaten the lives of the estimated 13,000 civilians still trapped behind

DNIPRO, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces desperately tried to block a complete Russian takeover of one of the country’s two eastern provinces Tuesday, with Russian troops clawing out incremental gains even as European leaders agreed to a partial oil embargo aimed at starving Moscow’s mammoth war machine.

Mayor of besieged Ukrainian city tells residents to stay in cellars as Russian forces advance ‘block by block’

Russian forces in a “frenzied push” have seized half of the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk that is key to Moscow’s efforts to quickly complete the capture of the industrial Donbas region

Russian forces are hitting largest city in Donbas still held by Ukraine ‘200 times an hour’

Russian forces seized a hotel on Severodonetsk’s outskirts, damaged 14 high-rise buildings, and battled on the streets.

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…