The city would be the largest to fall since Russia’s capture of Bakhmut, northeast of Pokrovsk, in May 2023 after a brutal nine-months-long siege. Like in Bakhmut, Russia has thrown endless infantry into costly and slow advances, with its commanders willing to take on huge casualties for incremental gains, often as little as a bunker or a treeline.

Russia and Ukraine have traded almost daily assaults on each other’s energy infrastructure as U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the nearly four-year war make no impact on the battlefield.

By Marc Jones (Reuters) -Talks between Ukraine and holders of its GDP warrants have broken down for a second time in six months, the Ukrainian government said, adding another delay to its hopes of restructuring the $3.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau did not name the suspects in its statement but said they included a businessman believed to be the scheme’s mastermind; a former advisor to the country’s energy minister;

A Russian court on Tuesday sent an 18-year-old street musician who performed anti-war songs to jail for a third time as the Kremlin mounts a no-limits crackdown on any signs of dissent or opposition.The performances went viral,

If the Donbas falls, Russia’s aggression will turn to Ukraine’s second-largest city: Kharkiv. The tragic irony about the last nine months of war is that while international discussion has been dominated by the prospects for negotiations and cease-fires,

He told Putin he might give Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles, and he tried to berate Volodymyr Zelensky into conceding territory, but both to no avail. Trump canceled a planned summit with Putin,

KHERSON, Ukraine — Most of the streets of Kherson are empty now. Three years after the liberation ended a nine-month Russian occupation, the city that once erupted in joy has sunk into a wary stillness — a place where daily life unfolds behind walls or underground.

Rights lawyers say 18-year-old street musician Diana Loginova is caught in a jail "carousel," with prosecutors filing a series of minor charges to keep her locked up.

Military intelligence said the covert operation took place in 2024, but Ukraine is only now making the details public for the first time.