Ukrainian forces fighting around Velyka Novosilka claim its Russian takeover will amount to nothing more than a flag-raising ...

Russia's Defense Ministry claimed on Monday that Russian troops in eastern Ukraine have captured the city of Kurakhove after a monthslong battle. Kurakhove is a key stronghold for the Ukrainian army ...

Ukraine’s Kurakhove is surrounded on three sides, with Russian forces just under two miles from the devastated city centre. Yet between 700 and 1,000 local residents remain, most of them living ...

It is also a key route linking towns further east to the rest of unoccupied Ukraine. It is the second ... this month after Moscow claimed control of Kurakhove roughly 20 miles to the northeast.

In its Jan. 7 report, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported fending off 26 Russian assaults in the Kurakhove sector, including in the area of the town itself. The DeepState ...

An image taken from social media and supplied by the Reuters news agency appears to show a soldier holding up a Russian flag in Kurakhove. This image is a screen-grab taken from a video that has ...

Russia's Defense Ministry claimed on Jan. 6 that its forces had fully captured Kurakhove in Donetsk Oblast, a statement not confirmed by Ukraine. The reports come amid heavy Russian offensive ...