The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

Russian-installed officials in occupied regions of Ukraine say they will ask President Vladimir Putin to incorporate them into Russia, claiming their residents overwhelmingly supported such a move in Kremlin-orchestrated votes widely viewed as illegitimate

UN says it remains ‘fully committed’ to Ukraine’s territorial integrity ‘within its internationally recognised borders’.

Vladimir Putin's so-called "rocket man", Dmitry Rogozin, may be appointed as the head of Russia's newly occupied territories including Donetsk and Luhansk, despite the West slamming the referendum polls as an "illegal sham"

Four regions of Ukraine that are mostly controlled by Russian forces are voting in polls that close Tuesday on whether or not to ask Russia to annex them. Kyiv and its allies have criticized the ballots as a "sham" and vowed not to recognize the results.

Europe continues investigation after seismic events recorded in Baltic Sea

Swedish seismologists says blasts detected near gas pipelines, which are leaking into Baltic sea

Nearly four million people in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia are being asked to participate in polling dismissed by Ukraine as ‘sham’

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday released his evening video address in which he said the world would condemn the 'pseudo-referendums' being carried out in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The Kremlin-orchestrated referendums in the Luhansk, Kherson and partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions were widely seen as a prelude to…

Arrests made in 32 cities at rallies against mobilisation; border crossings from Russia to Finland have doubled and 10km queue reported at frontier with Georgia

Voting on whether Russia should annex Kremlin-controlled regions of Ukraine opened Friday as the West denounced the referendum that has dramatically raised the stakes of Moscow's seven-month invasion.

The Moscow-orchestrated referendums, which have been widely denounced by Ukraine and the West as shams without any legal force, are seen as a step toward annexing the territories by Russia.