Vladimir Putin's troops may be closing in on Bakhmut but the losses his forces have suffered there could shape what he can do next in his full-scale invasion. "There's an ongoing public split between ...

The Donbas city of Bakhmut is seeing heavy fighting for "every house [and] every stairwell" as Russian forces press on with attacks on the symbolically key settlement. The Donetsk city has long been ...

Two months after Ukraine’s defense of Bakhmut seemed doomed, the bloodiest battle of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine is still going against all expectations. Making rapid advances at the end ...

In a rare moment of agreement, the Ukrainian military and Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of Russia’s notorious private military company the Wagner Group, both claim that Russia’s 72nd Separate Motorized ...

There are just two roads out of Bakhmut for Ukrainian troops. Russian forces are within rocket range of both of them. And that means that, after nine months of brutal fighting, the battle for Bakhmut ...

Ukrainian troops will continue to defend the besieged town of Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed, stressing that should Russian forces overtake the area, they will have access to seize nearby ...

Russia’s claimed capture of the city of Bakhmut delivered a symbolic victory for Moscow and raises the pressure for Ukraine’s coming counteroffensive to succeed. Kyiv is contesting the claim of a ...