The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

Russian authorities are struggling to put out a massive fire in the southern Rostov region for a third day after an oil depot was hit by Ukrainian drones as Ukrainian forces push further into Russia’s Kursk region

As the war enters its 907th day, these are the main developments.

Ukraine is still outnumbered and outgunned, and is pleading with allies to be allowed to strike Russia at home.

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin accuses Kyiv of ‘large-scale provocation’

Evacuation comes as President Zelenskyy says F-16s have been delivered to Ukraine.

Russian military intensifies pressure on key Ukrainian transport hub of Pokrovsk; Kyiv receives bodies of 250 slain soldiers in exchange with Moscow. What we know on day 892

News reports this week quoted anonymous sources from the US and Ukraine that the first six F-16 jets had been supplied by the Netherlands to the war-torn country and that more were expected to be supplied by Denmark.

Moscow’s forces mount their largest assaults in Donetsk since seizing Avdiivka in October.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday visited special forces in the Kharkiv region, where the military said it had repelled six Russian attacks over the past day. Zelensky’s visit comes as Moscow said its forces had captured Vovche, a settlement in the Donetsk region northwest of Avdiivka, and Progres and…