Russia hopes to capture Chasiv Yar, just west of Bakhmut, by early May, Ukraine's commander-in-chief said on Sunday.

Russia has been steadily gaining in Ukraine but has focused its efforts on advancing in the country's eastern Donetsk region.

He noted its location overlooking the road towards the Sloviansk ... Newsweek's map also shows Russian advances near Kurakhove, Vuhledar and Velyka Novosilka. Viktor Trehubov, spokesperson for ...

SLOVIANSK, Ukraine--It's at night that residents of the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk are most afraid, when rocket and artillery attacks happen more frequently. Shells and rockets slam into ...

It is also a key route linking towns further east to the rest of unoccupied Ukraine. It is the second significant town in Donetsk to fall to the Russians this month after Moscow claimed control of ...