Moscow said on Friday that its forces had seized a handful of settlements in Donetsk since the start of the month.

Russia calls the city, which had a pre-war population of around 30,000 people, by its Soviet-era name of Dzerzhinsk, and says Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, where it is located, is now part of ...

Russia on Friday said that its forces had taken control of the strategic coal-mining city of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine, a claim Ukraine’s military denied. Russia called the city, which had a ...