Reuters reported on Monday, citing two industry sources, that the country's only coking coal mine supplying Ukraine's steel manufacturing was shut down as advancing Russian forces close in on the site. Metinvest, which owns the Pokrovsk plant, said in a ...

The Russian army is strengthening its positions in villages around the key eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk in an attempt to encircle it and lay siege to a vital transport hub linking embattled Donbas with the rest of Ukraine.

Ukraine has stopped production at its coking coal mine in Pokrovsk, which feeds the country's steel industry, because of the proximity of advancing Russian forces, two industry sources told Reuters on Monday.

Despite the Biden administration's $175 billion in aid to Ukraine throughout nearly three years of the war, Trump's stance on future assistance remains unclear. Ukraine has received the first $3 billion tranche of a G7-backed $50 billion loan,

Former US Army vice chief of staff General Jack Keane says Russia’s support for the war in Ukraine is “eroding” given it’s President Vladimir Putin “doesn’t have much to show for it”.