It was difficult to know what was happening in the strategic port city, from which tens of thousands have fled in recent weeks. Some Wester...

Severodonetsk and nearby Lysychansk have been targeted for weeks as the last areas in the Lugansk region still under Ukrainian control. Rus...

"This bloody crime of (Russian president) Putin's regime is a blatant violation of the international humanitarian law," General Valeriy Zal...

"Fighting is underway for Gostomel airfield," armed forces chief Valeriy Zaluzhny said in a statement posted online. Shortly earlier, AFP r...