Deep in a dugout near Ukraine’s front lines, a soldier sits with a book. It is not a tactical manual or a thriller, but ...

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The Ukrainian Kharkiv counteroffensive culminated in early October 2022, having pushed the Russian ground forces back over the Oskil River in eastern Ukraine and in some cases in northeastern ...

The fight for Bakhmut was so brutal that it was called a "slaughter-fest" and "meat grinder." War experts say it was smart for Ukraine to hold the city and fight, which caused problems for Russia.

Ukrainian armed forces have advanced nearly a mile near war-torn Bakhmut in the first gains of its long-awaited counteroffensive. “We’re trying…to conduct strikes on the enemy, we… ...

Bakhmut has become a bloody symbol for both Ukraine and Russia – with the cost paid in human lives. Claim and counter-claim are flying between Moscow and Kyiv over the eastern city, writes Kim ...

For months, this storied brigade, one of Ukraine’s most elite units, has been holding the line in and around the city of Bakhmut — and doing so with decades-old weaponry from Ukraine’s ...

Russia claims it has taken full control of Bakhmut, the epicenter of the war in eastern Ukraine over the past several months, in what would be Moscow’s first major victory since last summer.

Ukraine’s Cherevaty believed Prigozhin was merely trying to cover up his failures, saying Russian forces were firing 25,000 shells a day in Bakhmut and Lyman, the most active fronts.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, meanwhile, visited troops in the eastern town of Avdiivka, about 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Bakhmut, and was briefed on the battlefield situation, his ...

When the war in Ukraine finally comes to an end, the besieged city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine will go down as one of the most recognizable symbols of the conflict, writes Michael Bociurkiw.