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President Vladimir Putin announced on Monday that Russia would recognize two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent. Russian-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian government forces in the Donbas region since 2014, in a conflict that Kyiv says has cost...

Clashes have erupted in eastern Ukraine on Saturday between Russia-backed separatists and the Ukrainian army perhaps giving the pretext as the US has warned for weeks for President Putin to launch an invasion. Ukraine's military reports two soldiers were killed...

President Joe Biden said Friday that the United States believes that Russia has decided to launch an invasion of Ukraine “in the coming days.” "We have reason to believe the Russian forces are planning and intend to attack Ukraine in...

Ukraine's Army and Russia-backed rebels have accused each other of opening fire in separate incidents in the eastern part of Ukraine. Ukrainian defense officials have accused the rebels in Donbas of shelling a village in the Ukraine-controlled area. "The Russian occupation...