This page is updated with the latest maps and charts showing military ... bypassing an anticipated heavy urban battle in the eastern Donetsk area. Ukraine has been preparing for urban warfare ...

“We know what (Russian president Vladimir) Putin wants, which is the restoration of the Russian empire. This war started over 10 years ago with the annexation of Crimea. And if Ukraine falls, if we ...

Moscow's forces have captured Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region and about to gain Toretsk, according to reports.

It is also a key route linking towns further east to the rest of unoccupied Ukraine. It is the second significant town in Donetsk to fall to the Russians this month after Moscow claimed control of ...

A map produced by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) think tank. A spokesperson for Ukraine's Khortytsia ... rather than battle through urban settlements block by block.

Russian forces are slowly tightening the noose around the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a key logistical hub whose main ...