Donbas

Russia’s recognition of Ukraine’s separatist Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics was the precursor to President Vladimir Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion of the country, and extending its control of those areas has since become his primary goal. Parts of the two eastern provinces, known collectively as the Donbas, have been effectively under Russian control since the […]

Russia’s recognition of Ukraine’s separatist Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics was the precursor to President Vladimir Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion of the country, and seizing control of the territories has since become his primary goal. Large areas of the two eastern provinces, known collectively as the Donbas, have been effectively under Russian control since the […]

Russia’s recognition of Ukraine’s separatist Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics was the precursor to President Vladimir Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion of the country, and seizing control of the territories has since become his primary goal. Large areas of the two eastern provinces, known collectively as the Donbas, have been effectively under Russian control since the […]

For more than a month, Vasyl has been commuting from his home town in Ukraine’s east to the frontline, about an hour away. In April, the hotel owner from Konstantinovka said the situation was “completely fucked”, with Russian artillery fire bombarding his unit incessantly. Now, he looked visibly different: thinner and worn out but still […]

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky appears on a giant screen as he delivers a statement at the start of a two-day International conference on reconstruction of Ukraine, in Lugano, Switzerland, on July 4. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images) The reconstruction of Ukraine is a “common task” of the democratic world, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday during the […]

The United States has information that the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy “is under orders to effectively blockade the Ukrainian ports of Odesa and Ochakiv,” a US official told CNN, citing what was described as recently declassified intelligence. According to this official, that intelligence also revealed indications that Russian forces are deploying mines in […]

Ukraine said on June 4 that its forces had recaptured 20 percent of the territory they had lost in the city of Syevyerodonetsk, the focus of a Russian offensive to take the eastern Donbas region, and could hold it for up to two weeks, when more Western artillery is expected to arrive. Serhiy Hayday, the […]

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has marked 100 days since Russia’s unprovoked invasion by vowing victory even as Moscow tightens its grip on the Donbas with the aid of fierce bombardment that has turned much of the region to rubble. The Kremlin said Russian troops “liberated” many areas in Ukraine from the Ukrainian military, with spokesman Dmitry […]

Ukrainian serviceman and emergency workers carry the body of a Russian soldier into a refrigerated train in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on May 5. The bodies of more than 40 Russian soldiers who were found after battles around Kharkiv are being stored in the refrigerated car. Natalia Pototska cries next to her grandson Matviy as they arrive […]

Russian offensive is prelude to larger operation, U.S. defense official says Russia is beginning limited offensive movements southwest of Donetsk and south of Izyum, a senior U.S. defense official said Tuesday. “We think these offensives are preludes to larger offensive operations that the Russians plan to conduct,” the official said, adding the U.S. has seen […]


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