If they cross in, the advance would be a morale blow to Ukraine and complicate any territorial ... an M777 howitzer at Russian targets from the Kurakhove front line, last week.

Ukraine’s future may well have changed dramatically this week after the US held its first talks on ending the war with Russia.

It has persistently crept forward mile-by-mile, after capturing the front line town of Kurakhove Mr Putin first invaded Ukraine in 2014, when he illegally annexed Crimea. It is widely believed he ...

and Kurakhove – had a combined pre-war population of just over 31,000 people,” noted the ISW. Ukraine has also managed to retain control of the key logistics hub Pokrovsk, despite Russia’s ...

OSINT analysts from the Ukrainian project DeepState claim that the army of the aggressor country russia has managed to ...