deployed pontoon bridging equipment while crossing the Siverskyi Donets river west of Severodonetsk

army's attempt to build a pontoon over the Siverskyi Donets river was so catastrophically flawed that

Many soldiers spent their down time in the city when they were rotated from the front, before the invasion brought the conflict closer.... He said 60% of its housing would have to be rebuilt.... " I won't have anything-but I will survive."( Writing by Conor Humphries; Editing by Kevin Liffey)....

LONDON( Reuters)-Up to 1, 200 civilians may be holed up in the shelters of the Azot chemical plant in the eastern Ukrainian city where one of the fiercest battles of the war has been raging between Russian and Ukrainian forces, a Russian-backed separatist said. Russian forces are trying to grind down Ukrainian resistance in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk, part of a wider push to drive Kyiv's forces out of two separatist regions which Russia backs and has recognised as independent states. Ru

Ukrainian forces in Luhansk may have to retreat to avoid being captured, the region’s governor has warned.... Russian troops have entered Sievierodonetsk, the largest Donbas city that is still in Ukrainian control.... The southern Donbas region has been at the centre of the conflict after Vladimir Putin’s troops joined Russian-backed separatists who have been fighting there since 2014. The region’s governor Serhiy Gaidai said: “ The Russians will not be able to capture Luhansk region in the co

“ There, in the Donbas, the Russian army has gathered the maximum combat power." The Russian-backed leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, told the Russian state-run TASS news agency on Tuesday that a third of Severodonetsk is controlled by separatist forces.... Video from Chechen fighters allied with Russia in the city showed soldiers moving unimpeded in the city center.... Some of Europe’s biggest natural-gas utilities, however, have agreed to new payment

Vladimir Putin has urged Russian citizens to “ be united ” and build on “ deep feelings of patriotism ”, in a speech to mark Russia Day as the war in Ukraine rages on.... The conflict explained Sign The Independent’s petition to help the people of Ukraine “ Our nation has long considered this sincere and deep patriotic sentiment to be sacrosanct.... Sievierodonetsk has become the centre of the battle for control over Ukraine’s eastern region of Donbas....

KYIV( Reuters)-Russia told Ukrainian forces holed up in a chemical plant in embattled Sievierodonetsk to lay down their arms by early Wednesday as it fights to maintain momentum in its battle for control of eastern Ukraine.... Ukraine is calling for an increase in Western heavy weapons after Russia committed the bulk of its firepower to the eastern Donbas region, a topic expected to feature prominently at a meeting of NATO defence ministers on Wednesday in Brussels.... Civilians would be let o

The conflict explained Sign The Independent’s petition to help the people of Ukraine The upgraded BMPT-72, which is reportedly being used in Ukraine, was developed by Russian machine company Uralvagonzavod.... It consists of two 30mm 2A42 cannons, anti-tank missile launchers with a laser guidance system, grenades, auto-cannon and machine gun.... But videos on social media purportedly showed the tanks in the Donbas region, which is becoming the centre of the Russian military’s frustration as th

KYIV/ SLOVIANSK, Ukraine( Reuters)-Ukrainian fighters were holding out on Thursday in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk despite relentless Russian shelling, the regional governor said, as Moscow presses an assault that both sides believe could help shape the war's course.... Artillery shelling has turned the city in Ukraine's Luhansk province to a bombed-out wasteland.... Luhansk's regional governor, Serhiy Gaidai, said the centre of the town was being destroyed....