Russian troops have advanced close to the decimated Donetsk settlements of Bakhmut and Avdiivka, new maps show, as clashes wage on ahead of the second anniversary of all-out war in Ukraine. Moscow's ...

Beginning in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia steadily escalated into one of the ...

Russian forces have intensified their assaults along the eastern front towards Bakhmut ahead of larger planned offensive operations. This is according to the U.S.-based independent think tank the ...

The paradox is that Bakhmut never had the strategic importance of Kyiv, the capital, or the port city of Odesa, or Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, or even Donetsk, the regional capital some 50 ...