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

Newsweek's map also shows Russian advances near Kurakhove, Vuhledar and Velyka Novosilka. Viktor Trehubov, spokesperson for Ukraine's Khortytsia groups said: "The city is effectively holding on." ...

It is also a key route linking towns further east to the rest of unoccupied Ukraine. It is the second significant town in Donetsk to fall to the Russians this month after Moscow claimed control of ...