The situation on the front in Donetsk Oblast On Jan. 1, DeepState reported chaotic conditions in Novovasylivka near Pokrovsk, with both Russian and Ukrainian forces present in nearly every part of the village.

A solitary Russian tank rolling toward Ukrainian lines in what one Ukrainian drone group called “a very unfortunate suicide” belies the perilous state of the Russian army as Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds toward its fourth year.

Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine's army now has roughly 880,000 soldiers, while approximately 600,000 Russian troops are fighting against Kyiv's forces.

Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers and taken them prisoner, transporting them to Kyiv for questioning in what the country’s security services say is “ irrefutable evidence ” of Pyongyang ’s involvement in Russia’s war. Both soldiers were captured on 9 January in the Russian border region of Kursk, Kyiv said.

Ukrainian officials say Russia has launched a major ballistic and cruise missile attack on regions across Ukraine

A new form of warfare may have been used by Ukrainian forces in Donetsk as an owl downed a Russian drone in the region.

Donetsk region. Russian shelling killed one resident and wounded seven others in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk oblast, or region, on Jan. 11. Kherson region. A 56-year-old woman died at the hospital on Jan. 11, succumbing to injuries sustained in last week's Russian drone strike on a bus station in the southern city of Kherson.

Russia claims to occupy 2 more villages in Ukraine's east; Kyiv hasn't confirmed Ukraine's special forces claim to repel North Korean assault in Russia's Kursk Oblast, killing 17 soldiers Ukraine opens doors to foreign firms for military equipment modernization Germany announces first deliveries of promised RCH 155 self-propelled howitzers UK to finance production of air defense,

Russia has seized control of some of Ukraine’s prized lithium reserves since it launched its all-out invasion in 2022, potentially depriving Kyiv of a key economic resource.

Russia said Tuesday it had re-captured two Ukrainian villages in the eastern Donetsk region that Kyiv had wrested back from Russian control earlier in the conflict.

Meanwhile, Russia claimed it took a village in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk. DW has more. Ukraine is questioning and providing medical treatment to two North Koreans it captured as part of its ...