Ukraine’s military says 52 people were killed in Nova Kakhovka. The town’s Russia-backed administration reported seven deaths and 70 injuries. Ukraine says Russian troops are massing in the cities of Donetsk, Siversky, Sloviansk, and Kramatorsk. Ukraine launched long-range rocket attacks on Russian forces in southern Ukraine and destroyed ammunition storage, its military said. Ukraine’s military … Read more
Russian invading forces may be planning a simultaneous onslaught against the Donetsk region towns of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk The Institute for the Study of War claims that. The area south of Barvinkove was shelled by Russian artillery, which also shelled Nikopol, Novopavlivka, and a number of other towns northwest of Sloviansk. Russian invading forces may … Read more
Russian air strike in Kramatorsk kills at least one and wounds several. Ukrainian officials re-issued urgent pleas for civilians in the surrounding region to flee. Russian forces turn their sights on Sloviansk. Russiam forces left a trail of destruction Thursday as they sought to push deeper into the eastern Donbas region, specifically Sloviansk, as Kyiv … Read more
Lysychansk was the last city of Lugansk area still in Ukrainian hands. Capture would signal a deeper push into the eastern region. Belarus says it intercepted missiles fired by Kyiv. Russia claimed on Sunday to have captured the strategic Ukrainian city of Lysychansk and the entire frontline Lugansk region which would mark a decisive breakthrough … Read more
Sviatohirsk, a nearby village with a mediaeval monastery is shelled. Except for the western outskirts of Severodonetsk, the city is now under Russian control. Fighting continues in several parts of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Much of the combat has taken place on the outskirts of Sloviansk. Sviatohirsk, a nearby village with a mediaeval monastery … Read more
Ukraine soldiers may have to retire from their final enclave in the Luhansk area to prevent being taken, according to a Ukrainian official, as Russian troops pursue an eastward offensive that has altered the dynamic of the three-month-old battle. A retreat might put Russian President Vladimir Putin closer to completing his aim of conquering the … Read more
Separatist forces in Ukraine supported by Moscow said on Friday that they had taken Lyman, a major town on a route linking to important eastern towns still under Kyiv’s control. Separatist forces, working with Russian soldiers, have “liberated and taken full control of 220 settlements, including Krasny Liman,” the breakaway province of Donetsk claimed on its … Read more
By bus and train, residents keep pouring out of east Ukraine’s Kramatorsk and Sloviansk as terror grows the cities will be key aims of a major new Russian offensive. On Tuesday morning, a bus in the green and yellow colors of provincial football team FC Kramatorsk was waiting in the rain to pile up about … Read more
A baby-faced 20-year-old, Nikita Avrov allegedly killed in Ukraine while serving as a gunner on a Russian tank. At his funeral on Tuesday, those giving eulogies leave no room for doubt: the private died for a good cause, for his Russian fatherland. In front of his family’s house in the small town of Luga, 150 … Read more
