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Biden Says No F-16s for Ukraine as Russia Claims Gains

The United States will not provide the F-16 fighter jets that Ukraine has sought in its battle against Russia, President Joe Biden said, as Russian forces claimed a series of incremental gains in the country's east. Asked if the United States would provide the jets, Biden told reporters at the…

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UK will look ‘favourably’ at Ukraine’s plea for fighter jets as Joe Biden rules out sending American F-16s

‘I’m sure we will always look at everything that President Zelensky asks for favourably’ - roads minister Richard Holden

Evening Standard

Russia claims village on outskirts of Bakhmut in big push in east

Russia claimed on Tuesday to have captured a village just to the north of Bakhmut, a city it is trying to surround in a major push for what would be its biggest battlefield prize in Ukraine since last summer.

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Ukraine: ‘Fast-Track’ Talks Underway for Missiles, Planes

Ukraine and its Western allies are engaged in "fast-track" talks on the possibility of equipping the invaded country with long-range missiles and military aircraft, a top Ukrainian presidential aide said Saturday. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Ukraine’s supporters in the West "understand how the war…

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Ukraine: 'Fast-track' talks underway for missiles, planes

A top aide to Ukraine's president says Kyiv and its Western allies are engaged in “fast-track” talks on the possibility of equipping the invaded country with long-range missiles and military aircraft

The Independent UK

Zelenskyy says Olympics chief should visit Ukraine front line

Ukrainian president invited the IOC chief to visit Bakhmut in spat over ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes.

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Ukraine Comes under Russian Missile Onslaught after Securing Tanks from Allies

The danger of Russian air attacks remained high on Friday, Ukraine's military said, a day after Russian missiles and drones killed at least 11 people in what appeared to be a response to promises by Western allies to supply Ukraine with tanks. Russian forces trained tank, mortar and artillery fire…

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US Toughens Sanctions Against Russia's Wagner

The United States on Thursday stepped up sanctions against the Wagner Group, labeling the Russian mercenary company fighting in Ukraine as a transnational criminal organization responsible for widespread human rights abuses. Wagner has been locked in a battle to take the towns of Bakhmut and Soledar in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk…

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‘We need jets and missiles to beat Russia,’ says Zelensky in fresh plea

The promise of modern tanks comes as both Ukraine and Russia are expected to launch new offensives in the war

Evening Standard

Ukraine forces pull back from Donbas town after onslaught

Ukrainian forces say they have conducted an organized retreat from a town in the eastern region of the Donbas, handing the Kremlin’s forces a rare but modest battlefield triumph after a series of setbacks in the invasion that began almost 11 months ago

The Independent UK

Russian-Installed Donetsk Chief Says Wagner Units Making Progress in Bakhmut

The Russian-installed governor of Ukraine's Donetsk region said on Wednesday that units of the Wagner contract militia were advancing in the town of Bakhmut, with fighting taking place in previously Ukrainian-held neighborhoods. Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield claim by Denis Pushilin, the Russian-imposed head of the region, whose…

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Russia claims progress in Bakhmut, Ukraine says fighting fierce

The head of the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine's Donetsk region said on Wednesday that units of the Wagner contract militia were advancing in the town of Bakhmut and a senior Ukrainian official said fighting there and in a second town was growing fiercer.

Reuters

Germany Signals Shift in Veto on Leopard Tanks for Ukraine

Germany would not stand in the way if Poland wants to send its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Germany's foreign minister said, signaling a possible breakthrough for Ukraine as it tries to bolster its forces ahead of an expected new Russian offensive. Eleven months after Russia invaded its southern neighbor,…

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Russia and Ukraine ‘massing significant forces’ in Zaporizhzhia, says UK

‘Overall, the conflict is in a state of deadlock. However, there is a realistic possibility of local Russian advances around Bakhmut,’ the Ministry of Defence added

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The Guardian - AU

Russian army announces new offensive in Zaporizhzhia – as it happened

Announcement from Russian army follows heavy shelling in the region overnight

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 332 of the invasion

Russia claims to have captured village near Bakhmut; Germany declines to take decision on supplying Ukraine with tanks

Al Jazeera

Russia claims capture of village near Ukraine’s Bakhmut

Moscow says its troops have seized Klishchiivka as they press their offensive in the eastern region of Donetsk.

The Independent UK

Russia claims progress in eastern Ukraine; Kyiv craves tanks

Russia is claiming its forces have captured a village in an intense and monthslong push toward the eastern Ukraine city of Bakhmut

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Mapping the battle for Ukraine’s Bakhmut

Al Jazeera charts six months of assaults on Bakhmut as fighting against Russian forces intensifies.

Evening Standard

Wagner Group: Putin’s ‘private army’ has up to 50,000 troops fighting in Ukraine, say UK defence chiefs

Military sources say the group is vying with the Russian regular army for supremacy in Putin’s chain of command

Reuters

Russian proxy forces claim capture of Klishchiivka near Ukraine's Bakhmut

Russian proxy forces in eastern Ukraine said on Friday that Russian forces had had taken control of Klishchiivka, a small settlement south of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.

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Ukraine recap: world leaders gather at Davos to make the case for more military aid to Kyiv

“We’re tired of fighting Putin with rubbish kit”. This recent headline in The Times was an eloquent expression of the feelings of a Ukrainian tank sergeant, part of the 24th Mechanised Brigade fighting in Bakhmut in the country’s east. “Spider” Bogdan, whose Soviet-era T-62 had ground to a halt, dreams…

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Russia's Wagner boss heralds Bakhmut area advances, warns victory still distant

The founder of Russia's Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Thursday that his forces had taken the village of Klishchiivka, on the edge of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, but said that Ukrainian forces could not be forced from Bakhmut swiftly.

Evening Standard

Ukrainian soldiers have withdrawn from salt mine town of Soledar, say UK defence chiefs

Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from the salt mine town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine, British defence chiefs said on Wednesday.

Al Jazeera

Russia’s frenzied fight for Ukraine’s strategic eastern towns

Capturing Bakhmut would be a tremendous ‘morale booster’ for the Russian war effort after a series of setbacks.

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