"I consider the Russian and Ukrainian peoples to be one people," CNN quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin as saying. "In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours."
A Russian court has sentenced Australian national Oscar Jenkins to 13 years in a maximum-security prison for fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, state prosecutors in the Russian-controlled parts of eastern Ukraine said on Friday.
The United States on Wednesday confirmed that it will provide Ukraine with non-persistent anti-personnel landmines to aid in the country's defence against Russian attacks. The US State Department spokesperson said that the decision to provide anti-personnel landmines is a response to Russia'
Reports from the frontlines indicated that Russian forces had been making advances toward Selydove over the past few weeks as part of their ongoing military campaign in eastern Ukraine.
Ryan Evans, a British safety adviser who was working for the Reuters news agency, was killed and two other journalists were injured in a Russian strike at a hotel in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, on Saturday night.
A day after Russia claimed to have captured five villages after launching a fresh ground assault in north-eastern Ukraine, Moscow has now gained hold of four more villages in the northern Kharkiv region, CNN reported, citing Ukraine's top general on Monday.
The Russian forces captured five villages after launching fresh ground assault in north-eastern Ukraine, Al Jazeera reported, citing the Russian Ministry of Defence.
In the wake of Russia's invasion, Kyiv submitted a request to the ICJ, seeking a declaration that it did not engage in genocide in eastern Ukraine. Russia had asserted this allegation as a pretext for its military intervention.
The inquiry, overseen by the Ukraine prosecutor general's office, comes in the wake of a video shared by the Ukrainian government on social media, depicting the incident near an observation post outside the village of Stepove near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
Two Russian missiles struck residential structures in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk area, resulting in at least eight fatalities and 31 injuries, said the Ukrainian officials
The defence official Hanna Maliar in a Telegram post said: "Fierce fighting is taking place there. The enemy is attacking Bilohorivka and Serebrianka."