A city with a pre-war population of 60,000, Pokrovsk is located west of Avdiivka which fell to Russian forces in February 2024 and is a critical hub in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast.

Moscow's delegation at the last round of talks with Ukraine was led by a hawkish historian and the current head of the ...

Russia has warned there will be no “miracles” in a third round of direct peace talks with Ukraine set for Wednesday. Delegates from Kyiv and Moscow are due to meet in Istanbul, but the sides remain ...

Ukraine said it would send a high-level negotiating team to Turkey peace talks with Russia, even as Moscow wrote off the ...

Between September 2022 and August 2023, Russia launched around 2,000 Iranian-designed Shahed drones into Ukraine, according ...