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.

Ukrainian forces fighting around Velyka Novosilka claim its Russian takeover will amount to nothing more than a flag-raising ...