Residents flee as Moscow closes in on Huliaipole, a strategic town, using glide bombs and tactics to conceal troops.

Russia said its forces had pushed deeper into the eastern Ukrainian cities of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk on Tuesday, with one video showing Russian soldiers rolling into Pokrovsk on motorbikes and even on the roofs of battered cars and vans.

Oleksandr Syrskyi denies Russian reports that Ukrainian troops are surrounded in the eastern town of Pokrovsk.

Frontline maps show that the city of Pokrovsk appears to be on the brink of falling, with some western military experts predicting that Russia will eventually likely seize Pokrovsk, and the nearby city of Myrnohrad.

EUROPE is gearing up for all-out war with Russia and is miles away from any peace deal in Ukraine, a top Vladimir Putin mouthpiece has raged. Kremlin puppet Dmitry Peskov claimed there is a

Ukraine faces a major draft-evasion problem, but no place is quite like Vylkove, a Danube River town where men of draft age have all but vanished, many of them trying to avoid military service.

A Russian missile strike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Balakliia killed three people and wounded 10, including three children, a regional military official in the Kharkiv region said on Telegram on Monday.

Once a secret Soviet chemical weapons hub, Dzerzhinsk became one of the most contaminated places on Earth after decades of mustard gas, cyanide, and toxic waste were dumped directly into the ground. Entire lakes like the “White Sea” and the “Black Hole” still hold hundreds of thousands of tons of lethal sludge,

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A large Russian drone and missile barrage killed 10 people and injured dozens more in Ukraine overnight, officials said Wednesday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due in Turkey for talks on finding a settlement that might end Russia’s invasion of his country.