By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday appointed Major-General Andriy Hnatov as Ukraine’s chief of the general staff as Kyiv seeks to speed up army reform. A decree published on the presidential website said General Hnatov, a deputy chief of staff, would replace Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Barhilevych. “We are consistently changing the…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian strike on a town in Ukraine’s embattled Donetsk region killed at least 11 people, officials said Saturday, as a wave of heavy aerial attacks continued into the second night following a U.S. decision to stop sharing satellite images with Ukraine. Thirty people were also reported injured in multiple strikes…
By Andrew Osborn and Anastasiia Malenko MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces are starting to encircle the strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after capturing a string of villages to its south, and Ukraine has halted production at its only coking coal mine nearby. Following are key facts about Pokrovsk, which Russians call by its Soviet-era…