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Russia presses along Ukraine front after reports of Bakhmut slowdown
The front lines have barely budged since November, despite intense fighting. Ukraine recaptured swathes of territory in the second half of 2022, but has since kept mostly to the defensive, while Russia has attacked with hundreds of thousands of freshly called-up reservists and convicts
Russian strikes wounds 10, kill two in eastern Ukraine, says regional governor
Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of Donetsk region -- where Kramatorsk is located -- said on his official Telegram channel that Russian forces had targeted a park and damaged 'a dozen residential buildings', and fired 'cluster munitions'
Ukraine's poster girl 'Madonna of Mariupol' Marianna Vyshemirskaya claims Russia didn't bomb maternity home
Mariana revealed that the Ukrainian troops came to the hospital where she was admitted, for food and that they had no security
Hilltop coal-mining town a tactical prize in Ukraine war
The town of Vuhledar has emerged as a critical hot spot in the fight for Donetsk province that would give both sides, the Ukrainian forces who hold the urban center, and the Russians positioned in the suburbs, a tactical upper hand in the greater battle for the Donbas region
WATCH: Wading through Ukrainian minefield, Russian armoured column blown up
With Russia staring its much-anticipated winter offensive in order to dominate the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, Russian forces are attacking Ukrainian positions north and south of the city of Donetsk
Manpower lost, Russia recruiting women prisoners to fight war, claims Ukraine military
The Armed Forces of Ukraine in December said that 28 Russian women had been drafted and sent for training to compensate for losses of units in the 1st Army Corps
Ukraine says it repelled attack around Blahodatne, Wagner claims control
The Wagner Group, however, said on the Telegram messaging app on Saturday that its units had taken control of Blahodatne in eastern Donetsk
How Russia's Wagner Group mercenaries are spearheading bloody battles in eastern Ukraine
The ferocious house-to-house fighting has produced some of the bloodiest encounters since Russia sent troops into Ukraine, with Wagner personnel 'marching on the bodies of their own soldiers' as Ukrainian authorities put it
Soledar capture will bring Russia nothing significant, says US think tank
Ukrainian General Staff usually reported the Russian attacks in Soledar before 12 January. On 12 January they only reported repelling Russian attacks against Sil in Donetsk Oblast, a settlement over a kilometre northwest of Soledar, but, not the town
Russian forces press deadly assault for breakthrough in eastern Ukraine
Russian forces are using mortars and rockets to bombard Soledar in an unrelenting assault, struggling for a breakthrough after military setbacks have turned what the Kremlin hoped would be a fast victory into a grinding war of attrition that has dragged on for nearly 11 months with no end in sight
Ukraine says fighting to hold Soledar, but situation 'difficult'
Russian mercenary group Wagner claimed earlier this week its forces had captured Soledar, but the defence ministry in Moscow said fighting was ongoing and Ukraine denied any full takeover
‘This is what madness looks like,’ says Zelenskyy as Russia intensifies Bakhmut attack
Taking Bakhmut would disrupt Ukraine’s supply lines and open a route for Russian forces to press on toward Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, key Ukrainian strongholds in Donetsk
Ukraine conflict: Precision weapons ensure windows of opportunity continue to exist in winter
What is evident is that the challenges of modern warfare are not easy to overcome and the tide of war no doubt takes unexpected turns
Moscow says 63 Russian troops killed as Ukraine strikes Donetsk camp using US-supplied HIMARS; Kyiv claims higher toll
Former Russian separatist leader Igor Strelkov said the troops largely consisting of mobilised Russians were stationed in an unprotected building that was “almost completely” destroyed because ammunition stored on the premises detonated in the strike
At least 63 Russian troops killed as Ukraine strikes Donetsk camp using US-supplied HIMARS rocket launchers: Moscow
Without claiming the strike, Ukraine's military said the death toll from a strike in the town of Makiivka in the Moscow-controlled part of the eastern region of Donetsk was much higher
War in our time? The Russian bear is growling, and ready
The Ukraine conflict seems to have reached stasis point, with Russian forces entrenched in the east and aid pouring in for the Zelenskyy regime. The phoney phase is about to end, however, and war on a scale not seen since 1945 seems ready to begin
Russian forces launch ‘human wave’ attacks in Ukraine’s Bakhmut: The World War II style of fighting explained
In its efforts to capture Ukraine's Bakhmut, the Kremlin has deployed the use of ‘human wave’ attacks — a tactic that treats troops like ‘single-use soldiers’. This military strategy, which was popularised during World War II, sees many men taking aim at a position, no matter the loss of life
Former Russian space chief ‘hurt on the back’ in eastern Ukraine
Dmitry Rogozin said on his Telegram channel Thursday that he suffered a back ‘injury’ after a metal fragment was lodged above his right shoulder blade and will be needing surgery
'We were all allowed to be slaughtered': Russian soldier in desperate call to family
Russian forces in the earlier period of the war used open radio frequencies which were easily picked up by even amateurs. Also, the Russian soldiers carried their cell phones, neglecting their seniors’ orders, which were eavesdropped on by Ukrainian intelligence
Russia grinds on in Bakhmut, gateway to Ukrainian strongholds in Donetsk
Taking Bakhmut would rupture Ukraine's supply lines and open a route for Russian forces to press on toward Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, key Ukrainian strongholds in Donetsk. Russia has battered Bakhmut with rockets for more than six months now