Ukraine's top commander said on Thursday he had visited brigades defending the Novopavlivka front in the eastern Donetsk region where Russia has stepped up its assaults.

Oleg Magdych was driving supplies to Ukrainian troops in the eastern Donetsk region three years ago, on February 24, 2022. He remembers stopping for gas at 5 a.m. That’s when he heard it: Russian shelling in three different directions.

As snow falls in a park in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, Natalia fixes Veronika's military hood. They are both Ukrainian soldiers, but a mother is always a mother.

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These are the key developments on day 1,107 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Russian attacks on a series of villages killed five residents of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region on Friday, prosecutors in the region said.

The overnight Ukrainian attack in Donetsk Oblast may have hindered Russia's ability to continue fighting in the war.

Data from the Institute for the Study of War and AEI's Critical Threats Project shows the Russian advance and seizure of Ukrainian territory in the three years since Vladimir Putin began his three day operation to occupy Ukraine in 2022. Rohit Sharma emulates Dhoni, surpasses Kapil, Ganguly with Champions Trophy win

Russian forces retook control of village of Lebedevka in Kursk, captured villages of Novenke, Kostiantynopil in Ukraine's Sumy and Donetsk, respectively, claims Defense Ministry - Anadolu Ajansı

Russia has announced the capture of another eastern Ukrainian village, in the Donetsk region, as its forces advanced toward the central Dnipropetrovsk region.

Russian troops have crept miles through a major gas pipeline to launch a surprise attack on Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region, according to pro-Russian war bloggers. As part of a major offensive to eject Ukrainian soldiers from the western Russian region,