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Ukraine artillerymen near Pokrovsk, September 5, 2024. Photo: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Serhii Nuzhnenko via REUTERS
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Russia takes Ukrainian town in advance on Pokrovsk

Russian forces, which control about a fifth of Ukraine since invading in February 2022, are advancing in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to take the whole of the Donbas, which is about half the size...

View of a damaged building after it was struck, by what was reported to be an air strike, during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Bakhmut, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video released May 19, 2022 Donetsk Region Police/Handout via REUTERS
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Ukraine forces pull back from Donbas town after onslaught

Plumes of smoke rise from a Russian strike during a 36-hour ceasefire over Orthodox Christmas declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, from the frontline Donbas city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, January 7, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo
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Russia increases shelling in regions outside Ukraine's Donbas

Ukrainian service members fire a shell from a towed howitzer FH-70 at a front line, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Donbas Region, Ukraine July 18, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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Ukraine says situation in key areas of Donbas front remains very difficult

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba speaks during a joint news conference with British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss (not pictured) at the British Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, April 4, 2022. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki
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Russia's referendums 'won't change anything,' Ukraine's Kuleba says

A man rides a bicycle past the ruins of a building destroyed by recent shelling during Russia-Ukraine conflict in the city of Kadiivka (Stakhanov) in the Luhansk region, Ukraine September 19, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
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Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine's Luhansk region to hold 23-27 Sept. referendum on joining Russia

Russia expands war beyond east of Ukraine
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Russia expands war beyond east of Ukraine

Rescuers work at a residential building damaged by a Russian military strike, amid Russia's invasion on Ukraine, in the town of Chasiv Yar, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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Emergency services: Death toll from collapsed Donbas apartment block rises to 43

Is Donbas Putin’s next target?
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Is Donbas Putin’s next target?

People walk towards a monument to the Liberators of Donbass in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, Ukraine 27 January 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
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Russian Duma speaker: Ukraine pushing Moscow to expand its military goals - RIA

View of a damaged building after it was struck, by what was reported to be an air strike, during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Bakhmut, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video released May 19, 2022 Donetsk Region Police/Handout via REUTERS
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Battle for Donbas twin cities reaches 'fearsome climax', says Ukraine

View of a damaged building after it was struck, by what was reported to be an air strike, during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Bakhmut, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video released May 19, 2022 Donetsk Region Police/Handout via REUTERS
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'Brutal' battle for Ukraine's Sievierodonetsk will determine fate of Donbas - president

A local resident walks next to a building destroyed by a Russian military strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in the town of Bakhmut, in Donetsk Region, Ukraine May 29, 2022. REUTERS/Serhii Nuzhnenko
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Zelenskiy calls Donbas situation 'extremely difficult'