Situation in Donetsk Oblast On Jan. 7, reports indicated Russian troops had occupied Novomarkove in Donetsk Oblast. On Jan. 5, the 7th Rapid Response Corps of Ukraine's Air Assault Troops stated that Russian forces were increasing pressure on the Pokrovsk agglomeration.

Ukraine's defence forces struck an oil depot in Russia's Belgorod Oblast and a logistics warehouse belonging to the Russian occupying forces in Donetsk Oblast on the night of 6-7 January.

Intelligence officers intercepted a conversation in which a Russian commander threatens a subordinate soldier with reprisals after the latter asks to postpone the time of moving to a position due to the risk to his life.

A historic theater in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol has opened its doors more than three years after it was pummeled in a Russian airstrike that killed hundreds of civilians sheltering inside.

RUSSIAN troops have captured the village of Dibrova in eastern Ukraine’s war-torn Donetsk region, Moscow claimed today, as US and Ukrainian leaders said that a peace deal could be close.Also in Donetsk,

DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — From a bunker in eastern Ukraine, the 33-year-old soldier asks her comrade to fly a reconnaissance drone over her childhood home, hoping for a final glimpse before it becomes just another city pulverized by years of fighting.