Russia has been steadily gaining in Ukraine but has focused its efforts on advancing in the country's eastern Donetsk region.

Maps of the war in Ukraine show Russian advances as troops appeared to make gains into enemy territory on Christmas Eve.

Ukrainian soldiers are describing fierce clashes as Russian forces try to retake territory in the Kursk region that could be ...

Vladimir Putin was dealt a blow with Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk oblast but his forces ended the year with momentum in the Donbas.