"Currently, there are no attempts to cross the Vovcha river," Shamshyn stated. He explained that in order to successfully cross the river, the enemy would need to construct a pontoon bridge.

Some of Ukraine’s troops, meanwhile, have retreated several miles back from Kurakhove, around Shevchenko, to defend the advancing Russian forces. Fighting within Kurakhove, however, is ongoing.

Ukraine estimates Russian vehicle losses in that area alone to be upwards of 2,000 in recent months, which includes tanks and armoured personnel carriers. “The situation of Ukrainian Defense ...

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggested that the Russian forces may have targeted the dam to cause significant and prolonged flooding west of the reservoir, aiming to aid their efforts to ...

Journalists in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Paris worked with Bellingcat to tell how, building by building, an entire city was wiped off the map in just a few weeks — and to show the human toll it has taken.

But the destruction is much worse in the city centre, which has been levelled north of the Vovcha River. AFP journalists in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Paris worked with Bellingcat to tell how, building by ...

Kharkiv (Ukraine): \"It barely exists anymore,\" said the mayor of Vovchansk, an industrial town razed by a Russian onslaught shocking even for the killing fields of eastern Ukraine. Destruction ...

Vovchansk was quickly occupied by the Russian army after it invaded Ukraine in February 2022, but was then retaken by Kyiv in a lightning counter attack that autumn.

AFP and Bellingcat joined forces to tell how, building by building, an entire city was wiped off the map in just a few weeks -- and to show the human toll it has taken.

AFP and Bellingcat joined forces to tell how, building by building, an entire city was wiped off the map in just a few weeks -- and to show the human toll it has taken.

More than half of the families in eastern Ukraine have relatives in Russia. In Vovchansk, before the war in the Donbas region began in 2014, people crossed the border daily to shop, with Russians ...