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Russia says that it fired missiles at Snake Island, killing an unspecified number of Ukrainian troops. However, Ukraine denies that any casualties have occurred.
2022-07-7

A rebel commander is killed by a bomb in eastern Ukraine while three Ukrainian Army soldiers are killed in fighting. At least 33 people have been killed in fighting over the past week.
2017-02-4

Up to 75 British Armed Forces personnel will be sent as military advisors to the Ukrainian Army.
2015-02-24

The Ukrainian Army says it cannot withdraw its heavy weapons from the front, as it is still under attack from rebel forces despite the ceasefire.
2015-02-23

During the ceasefire, fighting kills at least five Ukrainian Army soldiers with 22 injured.
2015-02-16

Artillery shelling of Donetsk leaves at least one civilian dead while five Ukrainian Army soldiers are killed in heavy fighting.
2015-02-2

Renewed clashes around the Donetsk International Airport between the pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian government troops kill at least 12 people in the worst flareup of violence since the ceasefire accord earlier in September.
2014-09-29

Russian troops capture the key town of Novoazovsk, opening a new front that threatens to encircle and capture the port city of Mariupol.
2014-08-28

Five artillery shells fired by Ukrainian government forces hit a high-security prison in outskirts of Donetsk, sparking a riot in which 106 inmates escape; the shelling also resulted in the death of one prisoner and the injury of five other prisoners and two guards.
2014-08-11

Twenty-three Ukrainian Army soldiers die as rebels fire a BM-21 Grad missile at an armoured brigade near the Russian border.
2014-07-11