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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits troops on the front line as Russian forces hammer Sievierodonetsk in bid to "liberate" Donbas, and Kalush Orchestra sell their Eurovision trophy for the war effort.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday made his first trip to the country's war-torn east since the launch of Moscow's invasion, as Russian forces tightened their grip around key cities in the Donbas region. Zelensky's office posted a video on Telegram of him wearing a bullet-proof vest and being shown…

Ukraine’s president visited troops in the Kharkiv region, his first publicly known trip outside the Kyiv area since before Russia’s invasion, in a show of confidence for the nation’s defenders.

Russian forces are hitting largest city in Donbas still held by Ukraine ‘200 times an hour’

President Zelenskyy wore a bullet-proof vest during his visit and was shown heavily destroyed buildings in the region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited troops on the frontline in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region on Sunday, his first official appearance outside the Kyiv region since the start of Russia's invasion on Feb. 24.

Russian and Ukrainian troops engaged in close-quarter combat in an eastern Ukraine city Sunday as Moscow’s soldiers, supported by intense shelling, attempted to gain strategic footholds in the region while facing fierce Ukrainian resistance. Ukrainian regional officials reported that Russian forces were "storming" the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk, where the…