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The Latest Breaking News on War in Ukraine

Ukraine takes key step towards reform of judiciary

A congress of Ukrainian judges on Thursday appointed the last of eight new members to an important judicial oversight body, a move experts and officials have said is critical to Kyiv's push to reform its judiciary.

Reuters

Funding uncertainty weighs on UN maternal health agency

PATTAYA, Thailand — Ten years ago, Ukraine wasn’t a relatively large recipient of international aid for health and family planning.

Tribune News Service

Ukraine war: the bloody battle for Soledar and what it tells us about the future of the conflict

The battle over the eastern Ukrainian town of Soledar has been raging for several days now, with claims and counter-claims about whether Russia now has full control there.

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Russian forces press deadly assault for breakthrough in east

Russia says its forces are edging closer to capturing a salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine

The Independent UK

Russia's new deputy commander in Ukraine war inspects troops in Belarus

A delegation headed by the commander of Russia's ground forces, Oleg Salyukov, visited Belarus on Thursday to inspect the combat readiness of a joint force stationed there, the Belarusian defence ministry said.

Reuters

UK concedes some crooks got ‘golden visas’

LONDON: The British government said on Thursday that a small number of people who had obtained “golden visas” for rich investors might have obtained their wealth through corruption or other illicit financial activity.

Bangkok Post

International response to Ukraine ‘exposes double standards’ of most EU nations, says Human Rights Watch

HRW also praises response to crisis by calling it ‘a moment of hope’

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Factbox-Who is Russia's new war commander Gerasimov and why was he appointed?

President Vladimir Putin's defence minister has appointed Russia's most senior general, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, 67, to lead its war in Ukraine, the most dramatic in a series of senior command changes since Russia invaded in February.

Reuters

Will Israel and Russia forge closer ties under Netanyahu?

Ukraine has expressed its disappointment in sign that the new Israeli government may establish closer ties to Russia.

Al Jazeera

Ukrainian doctors remove unexploded grenade from soldier’s chest with ground-breaking surgery

The operation was conducted without using electrocoagulation

Evening Standard

Russian-installed official says Ukrainian 'resistance' persists in Soledar

A Russian-installed official in Ukraine's Donetsk region said on Thursday that "pockets of resistance" remained in the Ukrainian town of Soledar, undermining claims that the town had been taken by Russian forces.

Reuters

UK review of 'golden' visas for millionaires finds links to corruption

The British government said on Thursday that a small number of people who were granted so-called "golden visas" for millionaire investors might have obtained their wealth through corruption or organised crime.

Reuters

Scale of alleged torture, detentions by Russian forces in Kherson emerges

Oksana Minenko, a 44-year-old accountant who lives in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, said she was repeatedly detained and tortured by occupying Russian forces.

Reuters

Ukraine Says it Is Holding Out despite Intense Battles in Soledar

Ukraine said on Thursday its troops were still holding out despite heavy fighting on a battlefield covered with bodies in a salt mining town in eastern Ukraine, where Russian mercenaries have claimed Moscow's first significant gain in half a year. The ultra-nationalist Russian mercenary group Wagner, run by an ally…

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Ukrainian troops hold out in Soledar as Russia builds up forces - Kyiv

Russia is building up its forces in Ukraine but Ukrainian forces are holding out in fierce fighting for the eastern town of Soledar, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said on Thursday.

France 24

Ukraine tracks Russian missiles as evidence of possible war crimes in Kharkiv

As Russian strikes on Ukraine have intensified in recent months, Ukrainian authorities have set themselves the task of investigating Moscow’s war crimes against civilians. Our special correspondents Luke Shrago, Mélina Huet and Olga Ivashchenko were given special access to one of the few areas where missile debris is collected in…

Evening Standard

Putin’s change of commander in Ukraine is ‘sign of desperation’, says ex-British Army chief

Lord Richard Dannatt suggests General Gerasimov could even try to topple President Putin, whose position he was was ‘increasingly insecure’

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin replaces top Ukraine commander 'General Armageddon' after just 3 months

While overseeing troops in Ukraine, Sergei Surovikin was crediting with strengthening coordination, reinforcing control and introducing a campaign of knocking out Ukraine's energy infrastructure

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Russia says it is interested in future talks with Ukraine's human rights commissioners - TASS

Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova said on Thursday that both Moscow and Kyiv are interested in future contacts between their rights commissioners, the TASS news agency reported.

The Independent UK

Putin replaces infamous ‘General Armageddon’ after just three months in Ukraine military shake-up

Kyiv officials say intensity of fighting comparable to Second World War, with Russia’s Wager mercenary group claiming ‘complete liberation’ of mining town

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Blames Ally Armenia for Breakdown in Talks with Azerbaijan

Russia on Thursday blamed Armenia for a breakdown in peace talks with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, in the latest sign of friction between allies Moscow and Yerevan over the conflict. Armenia and Azerbaijan have for months been in talks to broker a peace deal over Nagorno-Karabakh - a…

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Russia blames Armenia for breakdown in Azerbaijan talks

Russia blamed Armenia on Thursday for a breakdown in peace talks with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, in the latest sign of friction between allies Moscow and Yerevan over the conflict.

Reuters

Belarus detains former presidential candidate

An opposition politician who stood against long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko in the controversial 2020 presidential election has been detained, his team said.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine Response Should Be 'Replicated', HRW Urges Governments

Human Rights Watch on Thursday hailed the international response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, urging governments to show the same concern for civilians caught up in other conflicts. "Amongst the fog of war and the darkness that we have seen in this war in Ukraine, there has been a shining…

France 24

Zelensky vows to give troops ‘everything’ to defend critical Bakhmut and Soledar

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday vowed to give the Ukrainian forces defending the cities of Bakhmut and Soledar “everything necessary” to keep Russian troops at bay. The fall of the key salt-mining town of Soledar could offer Russian forces an inroad for conquering other areas of Donetsk province that remain…

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