A city with a pre-war population of 60,000, Pokrovsk is located west of Avdiivka which fell to Russian forces in February 2024 and is a critical hub in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has renewed his call for direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end their ongoing war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling over a ceasefire. Meanwhile, Trump has changed his mind about sending weapons to Ukraine.

Ukrainian lawmakers approved legislation that would strip the nation’s anti-corruption agencies of their independence and potentially cripple efforts to tackle high-level graft.

Ukraine's parliament voted on Tuesday to tighten restrictions on two key anti-corruption agencies, lawmakers said, rolling back the autonomy of institutions that have been at the centre of the government's reform programme.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Tuesday that there was no basis to expect miracles from a proposed third round of direct Russian-Ukrainian peace talks, and declined to give any time frame for a potential agreement to end the war.

Stefan Gady says that, while morale is strong among Ukrainian fighters, “the armed forces are really struggling now.”

Ukraine will need at least $120 billion for defence spending next year, Ukrainian Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Tuesday.

In other words, its name means “undo the war.” But the protest goes further: Mr. Winter built it with metal from a Russian tank destroyed in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, which he obtained through the help of two fellow Finns, a volunteer soldier and an aid worker.

Ukraine’s new prime minister said she’s likely to seek more financing from the International Monetary Fund as she sets out to shore up the nation’s fiscal needs with no end in sight to Russia’s war. Yuliia Svyrydenko,