The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

Shelling has trapped 77 miners in a coal mine in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine after power to the mine was cut off, Russia's state RIA news agency reported on Saturday.

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The Russian chopper burst into a ball of flames after being struck by a Ukrainian missile in an area just inside the region of Donetsk, on the border with Zaporizhzhia

Ukraine holds Sievierodonetsk as battle for Donbas enters critical phase; the Russians rejecting Putin and fighting for Kyiv

Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner have been sentenced to death by a court in separatist Donetsk People's Republic, with their firng squad said to be aimed with British weaponry and bullets

Maria Lvova-Belova accused by Ukraine of organising capture of vulnerable children in Luhansk and Donetsk

These images purport to show the aftermath of a Ukrainian strike on a market in Ukraine’s eastern separatist Donetsk region as the war rages on in the area.

Up to 1,200 civilians may be holed up in the shelters of the Azot chemical plant in the eastern Ukrainian city where one of the fiercest battles of the war has been raging between Russian and Ukrainian forces, a Russian-backed separatist said. Russian forces are trying to grind down Ukrainian…

More than 500 civilians are trapped inside the Azot factory where Ukrainian troops have resisted weeks of Russian bombardment

Ukraine ignored a Russian ultimatum to surrender the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk on Wednesday as the United States announced more weapons for Kyiv, which warned that arms deliveries were taking too long.

Russian troops control about 80% of the fiercely contested eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk and have destroyed all three bridges leading out of it but Ukrainian authorities are still trying to evacuate the wounded, a regional official said Tuesday. Serhiy Haidai, governor of the eastern Luhansk region, acknowledged that a…