Beginning in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia steadily escalated into one of the largest wars in Europe since 1945. Using Google Earth, this video maps the war from its origins to the present.

Pokrovsk, a road and rail hub in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, had a pre-war population of some 60,000 people. But most people have now fled, all children have been evacuated and few civilians remain amid its pulverised apartment buildings and cratered roads.

The European Union on Friday made it harder for Russian citizens to enter Europe’s ID-check free travel area due to Russia’s continued war on Ukraine, increasing acts of sabotage blamed on Moscow and the potential misuse of visas.

THIS is the moment a Ukrainian special operations unit launches a daring drone blitz on a Russian air defence system worth over $1.26 billion. Vladimir Putin was dealt a humiliating blow as a

Burgas is Bulgaria's only oil refinery, and was a key part of Lukoil's foreign business empire, which is being threatened after the US joined Britain last month in imposing sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies over Moscow's war in Ukraine.

Western analysts say the attacks on energy infrastructure so far have had a serious — but not crippling — effect. Ukrainian drones have repeatedly hit 16 major Russian refineries, representing about 38% of the country’s nominal refining capacity, according to a recent review by the Carnegie Endowment, a U.S.-based think tank.

Russia launched yet another wide-ranging attack on Ukrainian cities overnight on Nov. 8, using a combination of drone and missiles to strike targets across the country.