The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

The leader of Russian-backed separatists in the breakaway Donetsk region called on Thursday for the military operation in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine to be accelerated, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 13 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Russian forces sought to encircle Ukrainian troops in twin eastern cities straddling a river as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Moscow was seeking to destroy the industrial Donbas region where it has focused its attacks.

Describing an ‘extremely bad’ situation as Ukraine battles for Severodonetsk, FM Kuleba calls for more weapons.

Moscow is attempting to seize the Donbas region of two eastern provinces, Donetsk and Luhansk

Sievierodonetsk under intense bombardment and surrounded on three sides by Russian forces

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of waging "total war," seeking to inflict as much death and destruction as possible as in three months of conflict, as fighting raged Tuesday in the eastern Donbas region. Russian forces have intensified efforts to encircle and capture Sievierodonetsk and neighboring cities, the only…

Russian forces on Wednesday pounded Ukrainian-held twin cities in the Donbas region that is now the focus of the three-month war, threatening to shut off the last main escape route for civilians trapped in the path of their advance.

Luhansk governor accuses Russia of indiscriminately shelling Severodonetsk, which has only one working hospital left.