The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

For people who have family members on different sides of the war in Ukraine, it's been a long year of disagreeing, disbelieving and biting tongues.

For Russia, it's been a year of bold charges and bombardments, humiliating retreats and grinding sieges. Ukraine has countered with fierce resistance, surprising counteroffensives and unexpected hit-and-run strikes. Now, on the anniversary of Russia's invasion that has killed tens of thousands and reduced cities to ruins, both sides are preparing…

Artillery battles currently make up the vast majority of fighting in the eastern Donbas region, as Ukrainian soldiers await deliveries of the ammunition and high-tech weaponry promised by the West. Amid freezing temperatures, the lack of materials is drawing out the war, the soldiers tell FRANCE 24's special correspondents Catherine…

One year after President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine both countries are preparing for offensives that could set the stage for a potentially even more disastrous phase of the war

It comes as Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitshcko issues an ominous nuclear weapons warning for ‘everyone on the planet’

First time a US president visited a ‘country at war where US military does not control critical infrastructure’, says national security adviser

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gives an update on the areas experiencing the heaviest fighting, while Russia warns France that Moscow remembers the fate of Napoleon Bonaparte as it accuses the French president of duplicitous diplomacy.

Ukraine's military is inflicting "extraordinarily significant" losses on Russian forces near the town of Vuhledar in the eastern Donbas region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday.

Nearly a year after the invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops are trying to seize the moment by overwhelming Ukrainian defences before the deployment of promised new weapons from Western nations. Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold the line with outdated equipment against the 320,000 Russian soldiers currently amassed in the…

Ukraine says a renewed Russian offensive is under way following 12 months of bloodshed.

As it happened: Nato secretary general said Putin sending thousands more troops and accepting big losses to pile pressure on Ukrainians