Russia’s remote Far Eastern territories are becoming the focal point of what Ukrainian intelligence describes as a gradual foreign takeover, with China and North Korea tightening their economic and demographic grip on a region that makes up nearly half of the Russian Federation’s landmass.

In the Velykyi Burluk direction, Russian forces regularly attempt to break through the border and have created a small zone of control between the cities of Vovchansk and Kupiansk, states Viktor Trehubov,

Russian forces have taken control of the village of Chervone in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence. Ukraine’s military said it struck a Russian oil depot in the Tambov region and another one in the Oryol region on Tuesday. It added that the attacks sparked fires at the sites.

Exclusive drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows a devastated Ukrainian town nearly encircled by Russian forces near the city that Moscow this week claimed to now control

Russia's chief of general staff claimed during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that Russian troops had taken full control of Krasnoarmeysk, the Russian name for the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.

Bar an incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, Ukraine has been losing ground almost continuously since 2022. Russian advances have been slightly faster this year than last. In 2025 Russia’s forces have so far seized 4,

As leaders of Russia, Ukraine, the United States and Europe met to discuss a possible Russia-Ukraine war endgame, one part of Ukraine drew increasing attention: the Donbas, an industrial region in the eastern part of the country that has been a primary ...