Donbas

Ukraine planning response against Russia as battle shifts to Avdiivka

The Ukrainian military aims to wear down Russian forces as much as possible before launching a counteroffensive in the coming weeks or months - seeking to end the all-out invasion launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin 13 months ago

Russia presses along Ukraine front after reports of Bakhmut slowdown

The front lines have barely budged since November, despite intense fighting. Ukraine recaptured swathes of territory in the second half of 2022, but has since kept mostly to the defensive, while Russia has attacked with hundreds of thousands of freshly called-up reservists and convicts

Hilltop coal-mining town a tactical prize in Ukraine war

The town of Vuhledar has emerged as a critical hot spot in the fight for Donetsk province that would give both sides, the Ukrainian forces who hold the urban center, and the Russians positioned in the suburbs, a tactical upper hand in the greater battle for the Donbas region

Zelenskyy takes credit for derailing Minsk Agreement meant to establish peace in eastern Ukraine

The agreements were a roadmap to peace in the Donbass where Russian speaking majority provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk had rebelled against Kyiv after the 2014 Maidan coup, which saw the impeachment of Ukraine’s democratically elected pro-Russia president

WATCH: Wading through Ukrainian minefield, Russian armoured column blown up

With Russia staring its much-anticipated winter offensive in order to dominate the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, Russian forces are attacking Ukrainian positions north and south of the city of Donetsk

Why US and Germany supplying tanks to Ukraine evoke memories of the Cold War

The export of German and US tanks to Ukraine is not without risk, both real and symbolic. The presence of Abrams and Leopard 2s in Ukraine threatens to recreate never-fought Cold War engagements

Ukraine: Russia captures village near key town of Bakhmut

The village lies northeast of Bakhmut, a wine-making and salt-mining city that used to have a population of 70,000 people and is now an epicenter of fighting

Bakhmut: Cost of Russia’s battle for key Donbas city

Bakhmut, on the Russian crosshairs since the summer, is the strategic city in Russia’s plans to retake the initiative and move into other parts of eastern Ukraine

Ukraine war and the Western objective of Russia’s dismemberment: Lessons for India

History has come full circle, with the West adopting the policies of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi programme against the Russia and its people and India is, once again, accused of being a Russian pawn, an allegation made during the Cold War

Ukraine recaptures key town in newly annexed Russian territory day after formal annexation

The recapture of Lyman would mark the first Ukrainian military victory in territory that the Kremlin has claimed as its own and has vowed to defend by all possible means