The General Staff said Russian forces suffered significant losses in the area, including 910 killed, 335 wounded, and 37 captured.

Russian forces struck the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast on the late evening of 18 August - at the same time as multilateral talks on ending the Russo-Ukrainian war were under way in Washington.

According to ISW analysts, Putin continues to rely on slow, grinding infantry assaults, limiting the pace at which Russian forces can advance. Ukraine’s drone strikes have significantly undermined Russia’s ability to deploy heavy equipment on the battlefield,

US President Donald Trump has been reportedly ready to cut short talks with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska due to Putin’s intransigence over his demand to annex the entire Donetsk Oblast. Source: Axios,

State-owned Ukrposhta JSC is closing its last branch in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, from August 20 for security reasons, Director General Igor Smelyansky has said.

Work on the fortress began when Ukrainian forces wrenched back the four cities from Kremlin-backed proxy forces in 2014. The belt runs from Sloviansk and Kramatorsk in the north down to Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka in the south.

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Connecticut has signed a sister-state agreement with a province in eastern Ukraine that’s been the site of heavy fighting since the Russian military invasion in 2022.

Five people were injured and residential buildings, commercial facilities, administrative buildings and a church were damaged as a result of Russian strikes on Donetsk Oblast over the past 24 hours. Source: State Emergency Service of Ukraine Quote: "Attacks covered Rodynske and Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka – two people were wounded there, three more sustained injuries in Kostiantynivka. Dobropillia ...

U.S. President Donald Trump began to actively push Ukraine to accept losing its land and people to Russia, following years of brutal, all-out war. People in Kramatorsk, the largest Ukrainian-held city in Donetsk Oblast — a region that Russia wants and Trump is thinking of handing over in full — have met the recent news