The idea is to use rope-a-dope tactics, letting Russian forces pound away until they have exhausted themselves. It’s far from ...

Prayer chants and the sounding of traditional ram's horns fill the air in the town of Uman, in central Ukraine, as thousands of pilgrims join an annual gathering to mark the Jewish new year, despite ...

Luhansk, along with the neighboring Donetsk region, make up the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, known for its industrial might.

Ukrainian forces are withdrawing from the front-line town of Vuhledar, perched atop a tactically significant hill in eastern ...

In an arc of villages south of Pokrovsk, including Vuhledar, battlefields that have been stagnant for two and a half years ...

Vuhledar had been under assault for almost three years. Russian forces entered it after a furious battle, and Ukraine ordered ...

Russian troops have reached the centre of Vuhledar, a bastion on strategic high ground in eastern Ukraine that has resisted Russian assaults for more than two years, the regional governor of Ukraine's ...

Vuhledar is a town Ukrainian forces fought tooth and nail to keep. It is the latest urban settlement to fall to the Russians.

Ukraine's military has said it has withdrawn troops from the frontline town of Vuhledar in the Donetsk region.

Russian troops are now in almost complete control of the eastern city of Vuhledar, which Ukrainian forces have been defending ...