Ukraine holds deposits of 22 out of 34 minerals the EU classifies as critical. Many are in parts controlled by Russia.

That connected Russian forces in Crimea with territory they controlled in eastern Ukraine. In the fall of 2022, Moscow illegally annexed Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk, just as it had ...

Using before and after satellite imagery, Al Jazeera documents the destruction across Ukraine since the war began.

The village of Bilohorivka in Luhansk Oblast, which Ukrainian analysts from DeepState recently marked as a complete "grey zone" on their map, remains under the control of Ukraine’s defence forces.

with Russian-backed separatists taking control of parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk areas of the eastern Donbas region later that same year. (This area can be seen outlined in black on the map above) ...

A map shows the location of Ukraine's rare earth minerals within its annexed regions ... are located in regions currently under Russian occupation, including Donetsk and Luhansk—which make up the ...

The map also shows Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine based on analysis by the ... including Donetsk and Luhansk—which make up the Donbas—as well as Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Crimea ...