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Ukraine said on Thursday its troops were still holding out despite heavy fighting on a battlefield covered with bodies in a salt mining town in eastern Ukraine, where Russian mercenaries have claimed Moscow's first significant gain in half a year. The ultra-nationalist Russian mercenary group Wagner, run by an ally…

Temperatures in eastern Ukraine have been well below freezing in recent days, hardening the ground and opening a window for potential winter offensives by both sides.

Kyiv officials say intensity of fighting comparable to Second World War, with Russia’s Wager mercenary group claiming ‘complete liberation’ of mining town

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday vowed to give the Ukrainian forces defending the cities of Bakhmut and Soledar “everything necessary” to keep Russian troops at bay. The fall of the key salt-mining town of Soledar could offer Russian forces an inroad for conquering other areas of Donetsk province that remain…

Schools and agricultural warehouses reduced to ashes in Soledar, satellite images show

Ukraine said on Friday its forces were still holding out in the eastern salt mining town of Soledar after a "hot" night of fighting in what has become one of the bloodiest battlefields of the entire war.

Sergei Surovikin dubbed ‘General Armageddon’ for his brutal tactics in previous wars, led Russia’s relentless assaults on Ukrainian energy infrastructure

Ukraine has been crying out for more heavy armour, longer range weapons and air defence systems to end the war.

Soledar, a salt-mining town of 10,000 people in eastern Ukraine, is the new focal point of a war where the Kremlin badly needs some good news from the battlefield. We ask who controls the town that's a gateway to the Donbas city of Bakhmut, where the Russians have been pushing…