KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Artillery shells slammed into the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Sunday as government forces tightened the noose around the rebel-held redoubt and ...

Heavy shelling has hit the rebel-held Ukrainian city of Donetsk, amid a continuing row over a controversial Russian aid convoy. People poured out of offices in the city centre after an evacuation ...

The rebels denounced some 30 violations of the ... reported Thursday a total 189 ceasefire violations in the eastern Donetsk region, up from 24 the day before. In nearby Luhansk OSCE observers ...

KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces have raised their national flag over a police station in the city of Luhansk which was for months under rebel control, Kiev said on Sunday ...

Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have vowed to take their fight to the country's capital – but their attempts to march south are have been met by resistance. Rwanda-backed rebels ...

Ukraine denounced the rebels' claim to independence as an illegal ... had asked him when he would disband the forces of breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk - the two Donbas regions which claim to ...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had to accept an armistice with Russia, whose heavy support for the rebels in Donetsk and Lugansk had dramatically turned the tables of the war, writes Michael ...