Ukraine, North Korea and Russia

Donetsk is one of four regions of Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed when the invasion first escalated in 2022, making it one of the key battlegrounds for the war.
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2024: Ukraine in photos
The year 2024 was brutal for Ukraine. Last winter saw the fall of Avdiivka when, after several months of brutal fighting, the ...
Christmas in Pokrovsk was eerie. A transportation hub in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, Pokrovsk had 60,000 residents before Russia widened its war on Ukraine in February 2022. Now very few people ...
Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine's east using the tactic of infiltration in small groups, pushing Ukrainian troops out ...
Ukrainian troops are retreating to the border of the Dnepropetrovsk Region from the Kiev-controlled territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic to ... ease movement towards the village of Andreyevka.
The city of Pokrovsk, a vital delivery and distribution hub for Ukraine's forces across a wide part of the front line, is in ...
Ukraine's military leadership has replaced the commander overseeing defences in the eastern Donetsk region where Russian ...
It's part of a push by the Biden administration to get as much aid to Kyiv as possible before leaving office Jan. 20.