a lonely Russian tank traveled along a dirt road toward the line of contact outside the village of Kurdyumivka, three miles north of the ruins of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.

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

Its fall appears inevitable, according to Ukrainian security think tank ... Ukraine’s 110th brigade, which has been fighting in the town, described the Russian takeover as mainly a “flag ...