DARK SECRETS: 5 - The Real Truth

War in Ukraine: a glimpse into the life of soldiers on the front line

In eastern Ukraine, Russia continues its push to control the entire Donbas region. The strategic towns of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut have all seen intense bombardment in recent days, leaving Ukrainian forces to shore up their lines of defence. Our reporters Luke Shrago, Taline Oundjian and Achraf Abid spent the…

France 24 · Jul 14, 2022

Among missile craters and smouldering ruins, residents of Eastern Ukraine still refuse to leave

Some are too terrified to leave, others defiant in the face of relentless shelling. As the front lines draw closer, some Ukrainians still reject evacuation.

ABC News · Jul 13, 2022

Some Ukrainians won't flee areas caught in crosshairs of war

As a Russian offensive intensifies in eastern Ukraine, authorities there are urging residents to evacuate for other, safer cities and towns in the west of the country

The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2022

Russia hammers Ukraine's Donetsk region after seizing Luhansk

Russian forces struck targets across Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region on Tuesday, a day after President Vladimir Putin declared victory in the neighbouring province of Luhansk after months of gruelling attritional warfare in which both sides lost many men.

Reuters · Jul 5, 2022

‘It’s a must for us to fight’: Kramatorsk mayor fears the worst as Russians draw near

Oleksandr Goncharenko says unless the invaders are halted the eastern Ukrainian city will be razed and its inhabitants driven out

The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2022

Key eastern Ukrainian city teeters in a battle of ‘simply terrifying’ cost

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Russian forces appeared Tuesday to tighten their chokehold on a strategic eastern city that has become the scene of one of the Ukraine war’s bloodiest battles, as fears mounted over the fate of hundreds of civilians trapped in an artillery-pounded industrial zone.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 14, 2022

Momentum shifts in Ukraine war as Russia advances in the Donbas

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Haggard faces stare blankly from inside minivans ferrying survivors from towns and villages bludgeoned by Russian armor. Ukrainian ambulances carry the wounded and dead from the battlefield, sharing the road with rumbling tanks.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 4, 2022

At 100 Days, Russia-Ukraine War by the Numbers

One hundred days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the war has brought the world a near-daily drumbeat of gut wrenching scenes: Civilian corpses in the streets of Bucha; a blown-up theater in Mariupol; the chaos at a Kramatorsk train station in the wake of a Russian missile strike. Those images…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jun 3, 2022

Russia trying to capture key Donetsk cities: governor

Russian forces in Ukraine's east are attempting to advance south towards the key Ukrainian-held cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, the local region's governor said on Thursday.

Reuters · Jun 2, 2022

A 'terrible nightmare': Treating Ukraine's wounded civilians

Across eastern Ukraine, hospitals in cities and towns near the front lines of Russia's war are increasingly coming under pressure

The Independent UK · May 31, 2022