ISW: Russia appears to have seized Pokrovsk after two-year battle – but gains stall beyond the ruins
Ukrainian forces not observed in the town since late January, ISW says.
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Russia paid 26,000 casualties for this city of ruins: Toretsk reportedly falls after 18-month battle
100th Mechanized Brigade held Toretsk for 18 months.
Russia forces Donbas residents into becoming”cannon fodder”
Disabled and ill Donbas residents are thrown into combat without training
Russia turns occupied Mariupol into logistics hub while residents wait for promised housing
Occupation authorities suspend school meals, confiscate apartments
Border Hrabovske remains under Russian control—but Kyiv’s forces block every move forward into Sumy Oblast
Ukrainian border guards say they are combining new tactics and old grit to stop Russian units cold in northern Ukraine.
Russia bombs Kharkiv zoo on first day of 2026: Most birds killed, lions wounded, volunteer in hospital after assault
The Russian bomb hit the building with tranquilizers.
Russia reopens Mariupol theater, where it bombed 600 to death, as “statement to the world”
Workers used chlorine bleach to mask the smell of decaying bodies during reconstruction. Now the site Russia bombed in 2022 hosts children's fairy tales.
Russians may have killed civilians who refused deportation from Hrabovske, says Ukrainian official
Ukrainian civilians abducted by Russian troops from the village of Hrabovske in Sumy Oblast may have been taken…
Russian occupiers turn Luhansk’s river into open sewer for industrial waste
Regulators have ceased to exist as occupation trades environmental protection for factory loyalty.
Moldova drafting Transnistria reintegration plan with Western partners, but keeping details under wraps
Old international formats collapsed; Moldova and Transnistria now talk directly.
Russian occupiers told Ukrainian teen: accept passport or die in childbirth
Ukrainian leaders tell of torture, occupation, brainwashing in US Senate
Command center, drone depot, three air defense systems – Ukraine’s Navy guts Saky airfield in joint strike (VIDEO, MAP)
Navy and special forces wipe out Orion drone storage, Tor-M2, Pantsir-S1, and truck-mounted gun.
Russian courts freed two seriously ill Crimean Muslims. Months later, both are back in prison.
One has cancer, the other is blind. Both were re-arrested after brief releases on medical grounds.
Another group of Ukrainian children freed from Russian deportation, propaganda and abuse
Among those returned: a 10-year-old bullied for speaking Ukrainian, children orphaned by medical neglect, and a teenager tortured over family ties to Ukraine's military.
Stop fighting now, talk borders later: RFE/RL uncovers EU’s hush-hush plan to lock the Russia-Ukraine war in place
The first phase would freeze the frontline and bar Ukrainian offensives, with negotiations on territorial governance deferred to the next phase
Russia isn’t just stealing land—it’s stealing children, homes, and identities
This approach by a high-level Russian official is mirrored across occupied territories, where authorities enforce Russian schooling with threats to seize children, militarize youth through combat training, prosecute Ukrainian identity as terrorism, and control information access.
Ukrainian paratroopers liberate Donetsk village in daring raid, capturing 50 Russian troops and rescuing trapped civilians
Intercepted Russian orders instructed troops "not to take civilians alive" before retreating.
Russians confiscate 25,000 Ukrainian homes under “ownerless property” scheme in occupied territories
Russia spent a decade perfecting home confiscation in Crimea, where a 2020 Putin decree cut foreign property owners from 13,859 to 5,500. Now Moscow applies the same tactics across newly occupied territories
Russia forces Europe’s largest nuclear plant into unprecedented 3-day blackout as safety fears mount
Emergency diesel generators are keeping cooling systems running at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after its last external power line was cut, with experts warning the record outage heightens the risk of a nuclear accident.
Trump: slow occupation of Ukraine damages Russia’s reputation
Despite deploying 900 drones in single-night attacks on cities like Kyiv, Russia has captured "very little territory" in recent months, President Trump said during White House remarks