Russia has been steadily gaining in Ukraine but has focused its efforts on advancing in the country's eastern Donetsk region.

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

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Russian commanders in the Kupiansk sector are ordering their soldiers to retake positions from which they retreated under ...

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Eduardo Soteras for The Telegraph Kupiansk has become emblematic of a starker reality within the Ukraine war Credit: Eduardo Soteras for The Telegraph More than 97 per cent of the 75,000 people ...

Experts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW ... to expand positions north of Kupiansk. "The tempo of Russian offensive operations along this sector of the front was generally much lower than ...

In northeastern Ukraine, Russian shelling killed a civilian in Kupiansk, a key logistics hub ... and hopes for a diplomatic settlement to the war, fears in Kyiv are growing that a quick resolution ...

New reports suggest that Moscow has advanced close to the embattled city of Pokrovsk and around the northeastern city of Kupiansk ... on his pledge to end the war in Ukraine.

Its loss would be much more concerning for Ukraine. Emil Kastehelmi, a military analyst tracking the war in Ukraine for The Black Bird Group, based in Finland, says that a serious encirclement ...

a Ukrainian war tracker. 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 ...