The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

Street fighting raged Tuesday for control of Ukraine's flashpoint city of Severodonetsk, with the situation changing "every hour", an official said, as Kyiv warned its troops were outnumbered by Russian forces. Just days ago, Moscow seemed close to taking the strategic industrial hub in the east but Ukrainian forces have…

Ukraine will fight to recover all its territory occupied by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, as his troops struggled to hold their ground in bloody street-to-street fighting in the city of Sievierodonetsk.

This is the moment Ukrainian soldiers blitz a column of Russian tanks trundling through a Donbas town and obliterate at least one.

Photojournalist Serhii Korovayny has twice uprooted his family because of Russian invasion. He talks to others with the same experience

Ukrainian troops have beaten back Russian forces to control half of a flashpoint eastern city, local officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the front lines to support his country's "true heroes". As the see-saw battle raged on for the strategically important city of Severodonetsk -- the largest in the…

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Russia struck Ukraine's capital Kyiv with missiles early on Sunday for the first time in more than a month, while Ukrainian officials said a counter-attack on the main battlefield in the east had retaken half of the city of Sievierodonetsk.

Serhiy Gaidai, governor of Luhansk province, says Russian forces have suffered significant defeats

Ukrainian forces have reversed a Russian advance in Sievierodonetsk and recaptured about 20 per cent of the city, according to the region's Governor.