Russia's defense minister visits the country’s troops in a rare visit at the front line in eastern Ukraine.

The United States is planning a “false flag” operation in Ukraine using highly toxic and banned substances to blame it on Moscow, a Russian commander revealed at a briefing on Tuesday.

As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky toured London, Paris and Brussels to drum up support for more NATO weapons, this report is to find out what people on the frontline outskirts of Donetsk thought of arms supplies.

One of the fiercest battles of the war in Ukraine so far is going on as Russia seeks to make advances across much of the eastern region of Donbas.

“It will certainly happen in due course because it is part of the Russian Federation,” said the Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Petra Baass-Lipp, the mother of Alina Lipp, a journalist whom the German government is trying to imprison due to her reporting on Donbas, like her daughter, has fled Germany to Crimea due to persecution.

While Ukraine has made recent gains in the country’s Kherson region and the northern part of Donbas, there have been disturbing reports of reprisals against the so-called pro-Russia 'collaborators.'