A map shows the location of Ukraine's rare earth minerals within ... including Donetsk and Luhansk—which make up the ...

The University of St Andrews professor explores this resource-rich region of Ukraine through the agonising lived experiences ...

First came the illegal annexation of Crimea in March 2014, then the fall of parts of the eastern region of Donbas to Russian ...

The war in Ukraine is entering a new phase focused on ... while streets are deserted in the towns and cities of the Donbas, an industrial coal mining region in the east, where Russian troops ...

such as prisoner exchanges and separation of forces in eastern Ukraine (the Donbas), to reduce the risk of serious conflict. Moscow has little interest in escalating the fighting: instead ...

Fighting has raged in Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion more than three years ago. Russian forces have slowly expanded the amount of territory they control over the past year ...