Moscow's forces have captured Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region and about to gain Toretsk, according to reports.

Russia's government separately said on Tuesday it had captured one village close to the southern Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine and another close to the Ukrainian hubs of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

It is also a key route linking towns further east to the rest of unoccupied Ukraine. It is the second ... A wider attack has engulfed Kurakhove to the south, Velyka Novosilka further south and ...