Ukraine has largely been driven out of Kurakhove, a battered but strategic town in the Donbas, Russia said. Kyiv’s forces were pressing a renewed offensive in southern Russia. By Marc Santora ...
Only four civilian hostages, seized and tortured in occupied Donbas before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, have been freed in exchanges of prisoners in the past five years. There are serious ...
Grew up in these mines' - Life has long revolved around mining in Ukraine's eastern Donbas, the industrial heartland of the Soviet Union that Russia claimed in 2022 to have annexed from Kyiv.