Kyiv launches fresh drone assault on Putin's oil refineries inside Russia - Volgograd governor Andrei Bocharov says a fire temporarily broke out after a Ukrainian drone attack

Moscow's forces have captured Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region and about to gain Toretsk, according to reports.

Russia on Sunday claimed its troops had captured a strategically important town in eastern Ukraine, as part of a grinding campaign to weaken Kyiv's grip on the country's industrial heartland.

Ukraine’s 110th Mechanized Brigade acknowledged a withdrawal from parts of the village to avoid encirclement but claimed that fighting is ongoing elsewhere in Velyka Novosilka.

Analysts from the DeepState project reported on the night of 26-27 January that Russian troops had advanced in Toretsk and near Anriivka and Novojelyzavetivka in Donetsk Oblast. Find out more: The Ukrainian army is engaging in fierce battles and retreating ...

Ukraine still has a foothold in Russia’s Kursk region—a potential key bargaining chip in any deal to end the conflict—and even launched some smaller offensive operations earlier this month. Yet Russia has retaken half of the territory that Ukraine seized in its summer offensive.

Russia's Defense Ministry said its troops have fought their way into the center of the strategically important eastern Ukraine town of Velyka Novosilka after a monthslong battle.

The fall of Pokrovsk opens up Russia’s army s in the east, potentially opening avenues for attacks in several directions

By Andrew Osborn and Anastasiia Malenko MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces are starting to encircle the strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after capturing a string of

Russian forces are slowly tightening the noose around the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a key logistical hub whose main supply lines are under threat nearly three years after Moscow invaded its neighbour.

Fighting desperately to cling on to coal mines that were once the lifeblood of its industrial east, Ukraine's soldiers conceded they were struggling against intensifying Russian attacks.