The Latest Breaking News from Bakhmut

In eastern Ukraine, Russia continues its push to control the entire Donbas region. The strategic towns of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut have all seen intense bombardment in recent days, leaving Ukrainian forces to shore up their lines of defence. Our reporters Luke Shrago, Taline Oundjian and Achraf Abid spent the…

Heavy shelling thought to be reprisal for Ukraine attack or preamble to renewed offensive on Donetsk cities

Region’s governor says loss was painful and he expects Sloviansk and Bakhmut now to face heavy attack

Russia will shift the main focus of its war in Ukraine to trying to seize all of the Donetsk region after capturing neighbouring Luhansk, the Luhansk region's governor said on Monday.

Since Sievierodonetsk fell to Russian troops Ukrainian volunteer Eduard Skoryk has been getting more calls to evacuate frail and elderly people from Bakhmut, 70 km away, who fear their city in eastern Ukraine may be next.

Four months into the Russian invasion on Ukraine, Lilya, a 22-year-old mother from the eastern city of Bakhmut, decided the time has come to leave the beleaguered region.

Ukraine said its forces were still trying to evacuate civilians from embattled Sievierodonetsk on Tuesday after Russia destroyed the last bridge to the city, Moscow's main target in its battle for control of eastern Ukraine.

Troops in Bakhmut describe perilous fight as city standing in way of Russian advance is pounded by missiles

A pungent ammonia cloud has been seen hovering over the Ukrainian village of Maiske in Bakhmut, where a Russian military operation is thought to have caused its release

Russian attacks are knocking out power, water and gas to entire towns and cities as the fighting in eastern Ukraine inches forward

As fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces rages nearby, volunteers carry the elderly, ill and those with mobility problems out of their homes and on to evacuation trains in the country's east.