AVDIIVKA, Ukraine — The Russians were already so close that the road to the Avdiivka coke and chemical plant was only dared taken at night. Vehicle headlights were shut off and covered, hoping ...

Ukraine has sent battle-hardened troops from a crack unit into the “hell” of fighting in the key eastern ... Before the war, its Soviet-era coke plant was one of Europe’s top producers ...

In an intelligence report, the British MoD warned Russian forces are close to the town's huge coke plant but would “suffer significant losses” if they try to take it. Russia has once again stepped up ...

The US has warned that Russia could seize Ukraine's key eastern town of Avdiivka - the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in recent ... but it faces an uphill battle in the House of ...