How are Russia and Ukraine placed after three years of fighting and with Donald Trump suggesting talks on ending the war ...

Moscow has claimed a string of villages since taking control of Avdiivka, sparking concerns among Kyiv's backers over whether Ukraine can successfully halt Russia's advance westward. A Ukrainian ...

Russia has been steadily gaining in Ukraine but has focused its efforts on advancing in the country's eastern Donetsk region.

It is also a key route linking towns further east to the rest of unoccupied Ukraine. It is the second ... advanced around 30 miles from the city of Avdiivka, which they took last February, towards ...