On the morning of November 18, 2025, nearly half a million people in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine awoke to a blackout.

From the front-line city of Pokrovsk in eastern Donetsk, to Zaporizhzhia in the south, there is little doubt that Russia is ...

Grinding progress for Russia on the battlefield this year has resulted in thousands of casualties but enough progress for ...

The battle for Pokrovsk is crucial for control of Ukraine's Donetsk region. Russian and Ukrainian forces are deeply entrenched, sometimes fighting for the same buildings. Both sides aim to ...

DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — From a bunker in eastern Ukraine, the 33-year-old soldier asks her comrade to fly a reconnaissance drone over her childhood home, hoping for a final glimpse before it ...

Russia has shifted its tactics. Instead of a full-scale frontal assault, it has been using a slower method, sending small ...

Pokrovsk was dubbed a "fortress" settlement in the Donetsk region, key to Ukrainian lines in the east and connected to other ...

Of the original US plan, Yaroslav, in eastern Ukraine, says it "sucks… no one will support it" while an army medic with the ...

Almost four years of conflict have taken their toll and the war of attrition is continuing on the homefront - but many ...