President Cyril Ramaphosa has "ordered an investigation into the circumstances that led to the recruitment of these young men ...

The Donbas, Ukraine's industrial heartland, has been a focal point of Russia’s invasion due to its economic significance.

Vladimir Putin will have to sacrifice between 500,000 and one million men if he wants to seize all of the Donbas region of ...

South African diplomats were working to rescue 17 South African men from Ukraine's Donbas region where they were engaged in ...

Ukraine appears at increasing risk of losing the city of Pokrovsk, an important stronghold in eastern Ukraine where it has ...

Pokrovsk sits along the eastern front line, part of what has been dubbed the “fortress belt” of Donetsk, a line of heavily ...

The government said the men were apparently lured to join mercenary forces involved in the Russia Ukraine war under the ...

The South African government says it will investigate how 17 of its citizens were tricked into fighting as mercenaries in the ...

In Dobropillia, a coal-mining town just a few kilometres from the front line with Russia in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, ...

The South African government said in a statement that as many as 17 men were lured into fighting in the war on the pretext of ...

Russia's defence ministry said on Thursday that its forces had advanced in the battered Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk and were ...