The contested region is where Russia’s war in Ukraine began a decade ago. Scores of Ukrainian soldiers have died defending it. Would Ukraine give it up now?
Category: 2. RussianAggression
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Peace Talks in Ukraine All Lead to the Donbas
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Downed Ukrainian Drone Causes Fire At Kursk Nuclear Power Plant
A fire broke out at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in Russia after Russian military forces shot down a Ukrainian drone flying near the plant, the press service of the plant said on August 23.
The drone fell on an auxiliary transformer, sparking the fire, which has been extinguished, and there…
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Russia, Ukraine Both Claim Battlefield Successes In Eastern Regions As Drone Attacks Persist
Russian troops have taken control of two more settlements near the front line in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on August 23 after Russia again hit Ukraine with another barrage of drones overnight.
The ministry said the villages of Kleban-Byk, northwest of…
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Frontline report: Putin promised to take Sumy — his paratroopers are trapped there instead
Today, there is a lot of news from the Sumy direction. Here, Ukrainian forces in the sector have seized the initiative, moving from a defensive posture to a broad counteroffensive that is steadily reshaping the frontline. The momentum shift is allowing Ukrainian units to dictate the pace of…
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Zelenskyy wanted 30,000 attack drones. One factory alone is building 36,000
Ukrainian firm Fire Point is building 100 FP-1 attack drones every day. That’s … a lot of drones.
Building thousands of FP-1s and other long-range attack drones a month, Ukraine is coming close to matching Russia’s own production of Shahed attack drones.
Meanwhile, Fire Point is…
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Ukrainian family’s prisoner of war son returns, changed by trauma
A generation of Ukrainian men has been shaped by the bloodiest war in Europe since World War II. Serhiy Hrebinyk, 25 years old and just released from a Russian prison, is one of them.
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The myths that made Putin’s war
The Alaska summit exposed the flawed history and personal vanity that fuel the conflict with Ukraine, argues Timothy Snyder
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Trump Says He’ll Decide Within 2 Weeks On Next Steps To End War In Ukraine
US President Donald Trump says he will decide his position Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine in the next two weeks and again warned that it could involve sanctions against Russia.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on August 22, he said he wanted to see whether Russian President…
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Kostyantynivka’s new morning routine: turn on the gas. Nothing. Russians are 3 miles away
For hours today, Kostyantynivka endured merciless Russian bombardment—a once-bustling city in Donetsk Oblast now scarred and shaken. More than 20 residential buildings were damaged, gas infrastructure crippled, and the last postal lifeline cut. Roughly 6,800 residents remain, holding on as the…
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