Fighting has blazed in Toretsk for many months, while Russia has headed south of Pokrovsk to avoid battles through the ...

Russian forces have slowed down their offensive operations around Avdiivka after they captured the Donetsk town, the Institute for the Study of War has said.

It has taken a year for Russia's troops to advance about 40km (25 miles) west - Ukraine was forced to withdraw ... been changes not reflected in the maps.

Russia says it has no plans to cede territory won in the conflict. But could allowing Moscow to keep captured land potentially cause wider chaos?

Officials in Ukraine and ... running from Pokrovsk west, toward the city of Dnipro, the Ukrainian military said. Newsweek could not independently verify this report. A map produced by the ...