Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine's east using the tactic of infiltration in small groups, pushing Ukrainian troops out metre by metre. Source: Taras Chmut, the head of the Come Back Alive foundation,
The entire year 2024 saw Ukrainian troops on the back foot, losing territory to the advancing Russian troops in northeastern Kharkiv Oblast and eastern Donetsk Oblast. Russia captured Avdiivka — an industrial city in Donetsk Oblast — in February,
Vladimir Putin was dealt a blow with Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk oblast but his forces ended the year with momentum in the Donbas.
Ukraine’s top military commander says fighting around a key eastern Ukraine city is “extremely intense” after a monthslong Russian push.
The Russian leader said that, if he could do it over, he'd have launched his invasion even earlier than February 2022.
General Oleksandr Lutsenko has come in for severe criticism recently, amid reports Russian forces are less than two miles from the strategic city.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has reported that battles are ongoing in the urban area of the city of Kurakhove in Donetsk Oblast. The Russians have concentrated their efforts on breakthrough attacks on the Lyman,
The general who has been been overseeing fighting in eastern Ukraine has been fired as Russia makes its fastest advances since the war began and closes in on a key territory.
Russian forces captured two villages in Ukraine, one in Kharkiv region in the northeast and one in eastern Donetsk region, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday.
Russia could soon capture the key southern Donetsk logistics hub of Pokrovsk, which would cap a year of material territorial gains in Ukraine.
Russian troops destroyed or captured several Ukrainian positions near the eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv's military said on Wednesday, as Moscow bears down on the strategic logistics hub that is home to a unique Ukrainian coking mine.