Irina last spoke to her parents who live in Russia’s Kursk region six months ago, before Ukrainian troops stormed across the ...

The train station where residents once gathered to flee is abandoned and ... AFP it had enabled Russian infantry to advance up to two kilometres (1.2 miles) from the city's outskirts.

Bitterness has greeted suggestions that occupied territory will have to be ceded to Russia: “It’s like ripping off a man’s ...

In February 2020, former residents gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city - the first time former residents returned since its abandonment. During Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in ...

But the Kremlin is dedicating a lot of attention, resources, and men to one particular Ukrainian city: Pokrovsk. A key ...

Russia said Friday its forces had seized the mining town of Toretsk in east Ukraine after months of heavy fighting, the ...

Russia abandoned Kherson weeks after "annexing" its namesake province. The battle for Bakhmut, a once-bucolic city of 80,000, remains the longest and bloodiest of the war. Russia's year-long drive ...