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.

Fighting for control of the strategic hub of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine is intensifying, with the Russian Defense Ministry claiming to have eliminated a group of Ukrainian special forces sent to help defend the area.

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.

The battle for Pokrovsk - on a big road and rail artery in the Donetsk region - has been going on for well over a year.

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.