The Russo-Ukrainian War stretches across a frontline nearly 700 miles long, from Kharkiv in the northeast through Donbas and down to the Black Sea. Current maps show Russia pressing with localized offensives near Pokrovsk while Ukraine holds fortified positions across Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia.

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Location is everything. Kharkiv is just 40km (25 miles) from Russia, once a vital trading partner of Ukraine but now the country’s bitterest enemy. Lviv sits 70km from prosperous Poland, gateway to the markets of the European Union. Many of the province’s inhabitants work on the other side of the border.

Donald Trump is reportedly ‘sick’ of being presented with maps of Ukraine’s battlefronts. The problem may be he and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy are looking at different things.

Moscow’s forces infiltrated Pokrovsk after months of attacks on the city, a strategic part of Ukraine’s eastern defenses.

Kyiv and Moscow have offered contrasting responses after Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Russia's biggest oil firms in a major shift of policy. Meanwhile, NATO jets are scrambled after Russian military aircraft briefly enter Lithuanian airspace.

When the conflict began in 2014, Ukraine seemed completely helpless in the face of Russian aggression, and the Russians easily conquered Crimea and other parts of eastern Ukraine. The war entered a more intense phase on February 24 2022,

US President Donald Trump pressed Ukrainian President Zelensky to accept Russian demands, warning of destruction, while reportedly throwing battle maps during a tense White House meeting.

Known as the “Army of Drones Bonus System,” the initiative rewards soldiers for successful strikes with points that can be exchanged for weapons, drones, and other equipment

Two weeks ago Ukraine successfully attacked an important Russian chemical plant using British-made Storm Shadow missiles. Kyiv described the facility as critical to Moscow’s war efforts. Russia struck civilian energy and port infrastructure in a massive overnight drone attack on Ukraine's southern region of Odesa, its governor said this morning.