“In their retreat, Russian troops are hastily abandoning their positions and fleeing,” the Ukrainian army said in a statement.

Russia is reportedly weighing a plan to buy up to $70 billion in the Chinese yuan and other "friendly" currencies this year to stem the ruble's sharp surge amid Western sanctions.

The United States of America has recently fought wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen; at least, those are the ones the Pentagon has officially acknowledged.

At a civilian has been killed and several others were injured after Turkish military forces shelled a number of villages in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hinted at a possible new cross-border offensive in northern Syria to clear Kurdish YPG terrorists from border areas.

The Chinese military says it will launch "targeted military operations" in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan amid soaring tensions between Washington and Beijing over the highly-controversial trip.

Russia is preparing for the next step of its military action in Ukraine after Moscow announced its forces would step up military operations in “all operational areas.”

The local governor of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine has called on civilians to urgently evacuate the city of Sloviansk, as Russian forces push ahead to capture the entire Donbass.

A Press TV correspondent says it is only a matter of time until Russian forces take Ukraine's strategic city of Lysychansk, the twin city of Severodonetsk in the Donbass, as Moscow pushes ahead to capture the entire eastern Ukrainian region.

Ukraine has admitted to losing control of a village adjacent to the key industrial city of Severodonetsk, which has been the flashpoint of fierce battles with Russian forces in recent weeks.