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 ...

Ukrainian forces made progress towards the Donetsk city of Chasiv Yar whose hilltop location makes it a critical goal for Russia.

Newsweek's map below illustrates what facilities ... to Turkey and supplies gas to southern parts of Europe, allowing Moscow to avoid using Ukraine as the intermediary for transit.

This page is updated with the latest maps and charts showing military and humanitarian aspects of Russia’s war in Ukraine ... into the largest conflict in Europe since the second world war.

Currently, Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk. That the Russians haven’t been more ...