Donetsk

Complete control of the depressed industrial belt of eastern Ukraine, from which millions of Ukrainians have fled in the last decade, would offer a major victory to Putin and put Kyiv at risk of a new invasion

Inhabitants of the frontline province survive on a few hours of supply per week following the closure of the largest canal in the eastern Donbas region

The Ukrainian president and several European leaders will meet with the US president Monday to discuss peace negotiations with Russia

The invading army is targeting logistics lines, the Achilles’ heel of the Ukrainian army, to conquer key cities in the Donetsk province

Thousands of people gathered in Kyiv and other cities to oppose the Ukrainian president’s measures to control anti-corruption agencies

Miguel Carmona’s wife wants to recover the family pet, which traveled to the war zone in Donetsk with the army veteran

Politicians and media outlets celebrate the US president’s decision to provide the weapons agreed on under Biden, as well as new shipments

Washington suspended weapons supplies to Kyiv last week. The US president insists he is ‘not happy at all’ with Russia’s Vladimir Putin

Mariano García Calatayud was arrested in 2022 by Kremlin agents in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, where he participated in street protests. With no news of his whereabouts for years, his family believes he may be locked up in Moscow

A dozen soldiers work from a home workshop to transform civilian-use devices provided by the government or private entities into weapons

Ukrainian intelligence estimates that nearly 20,000 people have joined the Russian army since 2022, with the complicity of the Díaz-Canel administration. Some claim they arrived under false pretences

Ukraine is trying to recover a coal deposit essential to the steel industry in the disputed Pokrovsk region, under daily pressure from Russian drones

Police regularly arrest citizens planning sabotage in the rear, especially against army recruitment offices

The second Istanbul meeting confirms that Moscow has no intention of stopping the war by making demands that imply Kyiv’s surrender

The first direct negotiation between the two countries in the last three years concludes with slight progress

The agreement will serve to maintain aid to Kyiv at a time when the two sides are nowhere near to sitting down to negotiate peace

Michael Alexander Gloss, who was killed in combat in 2024, was the son of the head of digital innovation for the US intelligence service and had been in Putin’s army for a year

Kyiv opposes Washington’s plans while the UK downgrades ceasefire negotiations in London to a meeting of technical experts after Secretary of State Marco Rubio canceled his attendance

The battalions of this unit are made up of veterans of the late Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenary group who do not attempt to hide their rivalry with the Russian High Command

Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounces a plan to recruit fighters through social media and maintains that Beijing authorities are aware of it. Soldiers undergo training for about two months before joining the offensive

Ukraine leads the way in unmanned vehicle innovation, but the invaders are advancing with weapons that have been key to their recapture of territory in Kursk

April Huggett traded her life as a homemaker in Canada for the trenches of Ukraine to defend democracy and freedom against Russia’s expansionist ambitions

Residents of this city annexed by Moscow are calling for an end to the conflict but admit the difficulties of reaching an agreement

Moscow and Kyiv admit they have doubts about the limits of military operations in a key area for both their economies

Created by law to address the military’s personnel shortages, the Alcatraz Battalion is made up of recruits who have voluntarily exchanged incarceration for the frontlines

Russian troop movements to Kursk to recapture the region are allowing Ukraine to stem the advance in the eastern province