Russia is relying on new tactics to gain ground in Ukraine, with the continuation of U.S. support uncertain as the war grinds on.

In an arc of villages south of Pokrovsk, including Vuhledar, battlefields that have been stagnant for two and a half years are showing more movement than ever — in Russia’s favor.

Ukrainian forces said Wednesday they had retreated from the stratgically key frontline town of Vuhledar in the eastern Donetsk region after two years of keeping invading Russian forces at bay.

Ukraine's armed forces commander General Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Thursday he had ordered defences to be strengthened in the eastern Donetsk region, a day after Kyiv forces announced they had withdrawn from the town of Vuhledar.

Ukraine's military officials say forces are withdrawing from the front-line town of Vuhledar, perched atop a tactically significant hill in eastern Ukraine, after more than two years of grinding battl

Troops fought to keep the coal mining town in eastern Ukraine, but Russian forces advanced and took it over. Yahoo Sports

General Mark Rutte has visited Ukraine in his first official trip since taking office and pledging continued support for Kyiv.

NATO chief Mark Rutte told Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy "your security matters for ours" on Thursday during his first visit to Kyiv since becoming the alliance's secretary-general. Rutte also reiterated NATO's pledge that Ukraine would one day be a NATO member,

NATO chief Mark Rutte discussed the war in Ukraine and Kyiv's "victory plan" with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday after arriving in the Ukrainian capital on his first official trip since becoming the alliance's secretary general.