 | 'Relentless' Russian shelling in east Ukraine as US promises new aidHaving endured long battles to capture cities in the neighbouring Lugansk region, Russia is now seeking to push deeper into Donetsk to consolidate its hold over the entire Donbas region. |
 | Russia plans evacuations from chemical plant in battleground Ukraine cityThe industrial hub is under intense bombardment as Russia focuses its offensive on the eastern Donbas region in an effort to seize a swathe of Ukraine. |
 | Russia draws closer to capture of Ukraine's Donbas regionAfter abandoning its bungled attempt to storm Kyiv two months ago, Russia declared that taking the entire Donbas is its main objective. |
 | Sievierodonetsk mayor says Russian forces seize half of cityHaidai said later Tuesday that “most of Sievierodonetsk" was under Russian control, though he added that fierce fighting continued and the city wasn’t surrounded. |
 | Biden says US sending medium-range rocket systems to UkraineBiden had said Monday that the US would not send Ukraine "rocket systems that can strike into Russia." Any weapons system can shoot into Russia if it's close enough to the border. |
 | Russia steps up battle for eastern UkraineRussia is waging all-out war for the eastern Donbas region -- Ukraine's industrial heartland where President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Moscow of carrying out a 'genocide'. |
 | Ukraine says 'everything' being done to defend Donbas from Russian onslaughtRussia is waging all-out war for the eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions that make up Donbas, Ukraine's industrial heartland where Zelensky has accused Moscow of carrying out a 'genocide'. |
 | Russia closes in on key Ukraine city of DonbasAt least nine people were killed in shelling of Kharkiv, raising fears that Russia had not lost interest in the northeastern hub even after Ukraine managed to take back control. |
 | Russia-Ukraine war: Russians withdraw from city of KharkivDefense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said Ukraine was "entering a new - long-term - phase of the war." |
 | Ukraine battered again; Zelenskyy says US officials to visitUkraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, announced he would meet Sunday in his nation's capital with the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and the US secretary of defense, Austin. |
 | Air raid sirens heard in northern DonbasThe war has brought back painful memories for residents of Sloviansk, wherein 2014 Ukrainian government forces repulsed Russia-backed separatists after a fierce battle. |
 | Ukraine says Russia wants to 'destroy' Donbas as Mariupol prepares final defenceMoscow is pushing for a major victory in the southern city as it works to wrest control of Donbas and forge a land corridor to already-annexed Crimea. |
 | Russia offers Mariupol fighters to surrenderIt was the latest such offer to the Ukrainian defenders of the key Sea of Azov port during a siege that has lasted for more than one and a half months. |
