Encircled

Ukraine said Saturday it encircled several thousand Russian troops near a key town in one of the four Moscow-held territories that President Vladimir Putin annexed a day earlier despite condemnation from Kyiv and the West. Putin staged a…

<!-- -->For years the family home stood amid swathes of farmland, but now it lies behind a yellow gateBeit Ijza: An eight-metre high metal fence surrounds the Gharib family home in the occupied West Bank. To reach it they must pass…

<!-- -->Calls to the Ukrainian General Staff and Defence Ministry went unanswered.Russian troops have encircled the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, Ukraine's last major stronghold in the Luhansk region, the Russian defence…