"Before the war [started on 24 February], the last ... where he fondly remembered seeing the city's "brilliant new airport". Donetsk Sergei Prokofiev International Airport was built ahead of ...

Russian forces are likely to try to "exploit the cracks" in Kyiv's operations in the Donetsk ... before the end of the year. In its latest update, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said ...

For Shakhtar Donetsk, the stark realities of war in Ukraine are never far away. Two days before they were due to play Kryvbas in September, the hotel they were set to be staying in was hit by a ...

Shakhtar Donetsk is built with Ukrainian bricks but held together ... I had made friends with [captain Taras] Stepanenko, ...