Russia said on Saturday that its forces continued to advance in grinding battles around the key towns of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk, and had captured a tiny village in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine faces a major draft-evasion problem, but no place is quite like Vylkove, a Danube River town where men of draft age have all but vanished, many of them trying to avoid military service.

Defense Ministry says its forces pushed deeper into Ukrainian defenses, claims control of Orestopil, along with 7 other settlements during past week - Anadolu Ajansı

Ukraine's military said on Wednesday (November 12) that it had pulled back troops from near a settlement on the southeastern Zaporizhzhia front, but that it has stopped Russian advances in the area. Meanwhile,

Russia said its forces had pushed deeper into the eastern Ukrainian cities of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk on Tuesday, with one video showing Russian soldiers rolling into Pokrovsk on motorbikes and even on the roofs of battered cars and vans.

Russian forces have captured three more villages in eastern Ukraine, including Slodkie and Nove in Zaporizhzhia, and Gnativka in Donetsk. This advance follows recent claims of control over Ivanivka and Pavlivka,

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Saturday its forces had captured two more villages in eastern Ukraine, including one in Dnipropetrovsk region where Moscow says its troops have begun to make advances. Ukrainian forces made no ...

Russian forces have taken four border villages in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region, a local official said Tuesday, days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had ordered troops to establish a buffer zone along the border. Sumy borders Russia's ...