KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine—Eleven people were killed in a Russian missile attack that struck an apartment building and warehouses in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, local officials claimed. Emergency services said four were killed in the apartment block and seven at the warehouses. A further 25 people were wounded, two of…

KYIV—Ukraine claimed on Monday its troops had recaptured a fourth village in a cluster of settlements in the southeast, a day after reporting the first small gains of a counteroffensive against Russian forces. Soldiers held up the Ukrainian flag in Storozheve in the Donetsk region in unverified video footage posted online and the defence minister…

KYIV—Russia reported heavy fighting along the front in southern Ukraine on Friday. With virtually no independent reporting from the front lines, it was impossible to assess whether Ukraine was having success in penetrating Russian defences to drive out Russian forces. The counteroffensive is ultimately expected to involve thousands of Ukrainian troops trained and equipped by…

MOSCOW—Russia said on Monday its forces had thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive at five points along the front in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk and killed hundreds of troops while Ukraine accused Moscow of spreading lies. It was not immediately clear whether or not the attack represented the start of a Ukrainian counteroffensive which Kyiv…