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5 days ago · Russian troops have reached the Ukrainian city of Toretsk, an anchor of Kyiv's defences in the eastern Donetsk region. Its capture could bring closer the prospect of Moscow securing the entire Donbas.
2 days ago · Ukrainian president is on a European tour as he rallies support for his ‘victory plan’ to end Russia’s war. Stay on top of Ukraine latest developments on the ground with Al Jazeera’s fact ...
2 days ago · Before 2022, Russia occupied 42,000 km 2 (16,000 sq mi) of Ukrainian territory (Crimea, and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk), and occupied an additional 119,000 km 2 (46,000 sq mi) after its full-scale invasion by March 2022, a total of 161,000 km 2 (62,000 sq mi) or almost 27% of Ukraine's territory. [ 9 ] By 11 November 2022, the Institute for ...
2 days ago · Denys Epifanov previously headed the part state-owned company Energy of Donbass, which coordinates the region's energy production and took over operation of the oblasts' electricity infrastructure last year. Energy of Donbass is now headed by Evgeny Zheleznyak, the former director of the Zuyevskaya power plant and United Russia sympathizer.
3 days ago · Mariupol [a] is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.It is situated on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius River.Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was the tenth-largest city in the country and the second-largest city in Donetsk Oblast, with an estimated population of 425,681 people in January 2022; [4] Ukrainian authorities estimate the current population ...
4 days ago · Ukraine - Crimea, Eastern Ukraine, Conflict: As pro-Russian protesters became increasingly assertive in Crimea, groups of armed men whose uniforms lacked any clear identifying marks surrounded the airports in Simferopol and Sevastopol. Masked gunmen occupied the Crimean parliament building and raised a Russian flag, as pro-Russian lawmakers dismissed the sitting government and installed Sergey ...
2 days ago · The deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Crimean Tatar: Qırımtatar halqınıñ sürgünligi, Cyrillic: Къырымтатар халкъынынъ сюргюнлиги) or the Sürgünlik ('exile') was the ethnic cleansing and the cultural genocide [c 1] of at least 191,044 [c 2] Crimean Tatars that was carried out by Soviet Union authorities from 18 to 20 May 1944, supervised by Lavrentiy ...
