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

Russia fails to capture Kyiv The Russian attempt to take Ukraine’s capital was thwarted by a combination of factors, including geography, the attackers’ blundering and modern arms ...

Europe's second largest country, Ukraine is a land of wide, fertile agricultural plains, with large pockets of heavy industry ...

Russia on Sunday claimed its troops had captured a strategically important town in eastern Ukraine, as part of a grinding ...

RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western military aid to Kyiv, worldwide reaction, and the plight of civilians and refugees.

Russia has lost about twice as many men to death and serious injury as Ukraine. But the trends favor the Kremlin.

Ukraine hailed the end of the ... shift in Eurasian energy relations: The geography of natural gas trade dramatically changed, with Russia pivoting East for exports, and Europe looking West ...

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