Vladimir Putin’s forces are focusing on attacking on the outskirts of a key eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk amid reports of heavy troop losses.Around half of Russian attacks across the 620-mile front have focused on the area around the city,

Ukraine's government says a video circulated on social media appears to show 6 soldiers detained by Russian forces, who "subsequently shot them dead."

Ukrainian forces fighting around Velyka Novosilka claim its Russian takeover will amount to nothing more than a flag-raising exercise

Kharkiv region. In Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv province, a Russian glide bomb struck a residential area two miles from the frontlines, near the city of Kupyansk, killing two women on Jan. 26.

North Korean troops seem to temporarily withdraw from one section of front in Kursk Oblast, military says Russia claims to capture Velyka Novosilka, Ukraine admits partial retreat but says battles ongoing Russia intensifies attacks near Pokrovsk,

Russian Lukoil oil refinery struck by multiple Ukrainian drones, military intelligence source claims Russian assault intensity declines, focuses on Pokrovsk sector, monitoring group reports Australian POW feared executed by Russia is alive,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy replaced the commander of the eastern front, the most heated battlefield of the Ukraine war, after Russian forces captured another strategic town there.

Russian troops have advanced toward the southern flank of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, where they are attacking the positions of the Defense Forces, National Guard of Ukraine spokesperson Ruslan Muzychuk states this during a national telethon live broadcast.

Russia’s army is around six kilometres (four miles) from the centre of Pokrovsk, a formerly thriving mining hub on top of Ukraine’s largest coal reserves.

A Russian drone attack that targeted cities across Ukraine killed three elderly couples in a Soviet-era residential block in the eastern city of Sumy, prosecutors said.