( Reuters)-Russia's defence ministry said on Monday that 20 people had been killed and 28 wounded when a Ukrainian missile with a cluster charge exploded in the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. The ministry provided no evidence and Ukraine denied launching such an attack.... Reuters could not independently verify the statements by either side." It is unmistakably a Russian rocket or another munition, there's not even any point talking about it," Ukrainian military spokesman Leonid Matyukhin

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians have been spotted as mercenaries operating in the occupied Donetsk region, says the Ukraine National Resistance Centre. The Centre-which is run by the Ukraine government's Special Operations Forces-said that these mercenaries were accompanied by a translator and a former member of the Wagner Group at a training ground in the area. ALSO READ: Several hundred Wagner fighters return to Ukraine, impact limited-KyivIt added that Malaysians were not the only nationality seen o

( Reuters)-Ukrainian forces have shelled and damaged an oil depot in the city of Donetsk in the country's east which is held by Russian-backed separatists, the RIA news agency quoted a separatist official as saying on Friday. Images posted online showed the facility on fire.( Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Himani Sarkar)....

" Everyone is provided with the necessary assistance.... There are two children among the wounded," Zelenskiy said in his evening address. Separately, Russian-installed Donetsk Mayor Alexei Kulemzin accused Ukraine in a social media post of shelling the city of Donetsk, killing three people and wounding 10 on Tuesday.... It was one of the few still operating in the eastern Donetsk region, close to the frontline. Witnesses told a Reuters cameraman that two emergency workers were killed in the f

" Everyone is provided with the necessary assistance.... There are two children among the wounded," Zelenskiy said in his evening address. Separately, Russian-installed Donetsk Mayor Alexei Kulemzin accused Ukraine in a social media post of shelling the city of Donetsk, killing three people and wounding 10 on Tuesday.... It was one of the few still operating in the eastern Donetsk region, close to the frontline. Witnesses told a Reuters cameraman that two emergency workers were killed in the f

DONETSK, Ukraine( Reuters)-Two separate convoys of military equipment with no identifiable insignia were moving towards the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine along different roads from the direction of the Russian border, a Reuters witness reported on Wednesday. One convoy included nine tanks and an infantry fighting vehicle, while the other was made up of trucks and fuel tankers, said the reporter, who was in the territory of two Russia-backed rebel regions recognised as independent by Moscow

Russia's military said on Sunday that its forces had taken control of the village of Vyshneve in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region as they pursue their advance toward the logistical centre of Pokrovsk. Ukraine's General Staff made no mention of the village falling into Russian hands, but reported fighting in the vicinity. Popular Ukrainian war blog DeepState acknowledged the loss of Vyshneve and said Russian forces were moving on an adjacent village. Ukraine's General Staff, in an afternoon repor

A passenger train carrying out an evacuation flight has come under fire in the pro-Russian Donetsk region of Ukraine, killing one man and injuring one woman, according to reports. The train was hit by debris as it rolled near to Brusyn station amid a bout of shelling on Sunday, reports Ukrainian Railways.... Its conductor died as a result of their injuries.... Should get the proper punishment for their hellish crimes!...

LONDON( Reuters)-Russia's ambassador in London said on Tuesday that Britain had asked for Moscow's help in connection with two British citizens sentenced to death in a Russian-backed separatist region for fighting for Ukraine.A court in the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic( DPR) in eastern Ukraine this month sentenced Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan Brahim Saadoun to death for" mercenary activities". Their families deny that the trio, who were contracted by the Ukrainian arm

A series of explosions have been heard in rebel-held Donetsk region for the second day running.... Multiple explosions were heard in the centre of the separatist-controlled city late on Saturday and into the early hours of Sunday morning, following similar blasts on Saturday morning.... The Luhansk Information Centre said one of the blasts was in a natural gas main and cited witnesses as saying the other was at a vehicle service station.？...