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Ukraine troops involved in tough fighting around key eastern town - Zelenskiy

Ukrainian troops are involved in very tough fighting near the strategically important eastern town of Bakhmut, which Russia is trying to take, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in video address on Saturday.

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Ukraine battles Russian advance in key town of Bakhmut

Separatist forces in the war-battered Donetsk region say they have reclaimed a series of villages near Bakhmut.

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The hospital train helping Ukraine’s sick and wounded

Chronically ill and injured patients are evacuated from the embattled east to safer hospitals in the west.

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Attacks in the Donbas intensifying amid ‘major’ Ukrainian offensive rumour , says UK

In its latest daily update, the ministry added that there has been “intense fighting” near the towns of Siversk and Bakhmut in the Donetsk region

Evening Standard

Russian shelling, Ukrainian airstrike reflect broadening war

Russian forces are stepping up their battle to seize one of the cities in eastern Ukraine not already under their control while continuing to fire on areas in the country’s north and south

The Independent UK

Timeline: Week 25 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 25 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Murals bring hope in Ukrainian city under Russian attack

Pensioner Mykhailo sits on a park bench in the east Ukrainian city of Bakhmut admiring two huge murals painted on the sides of adjacent apartment blocs.

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Timeline: Week 24 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 24 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Timeline: Week 23 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 23 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Britain says Russia has continued to attempt tactical assaults on Bakhmut axis

Britain said on Monday that Russia had continued to attempt tactical assaults on the Bakhmut axis in eastern Ukraine over the last four days, but had only managed to make slow progress.

Reuters

Strike on hotel in east Ukraine kills at least one- authorities

At least one person was killed by a Russian strike on a Ukrainian hotel in the Donetsk region town of Bakhmut on Wednesday, local authorities said.

Reuters

Timeline: Week 21 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events of week 21 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Britain says Bakhmut likely to be Russia's next objective in Ukraine

Russian forces have been slowly advancing westwards following shelling and probing assaults towards the town of Siversk in Ukraine's Donetsk region from Lysychansk, Britain's defence ministry said on Friday.

Reuters

War in Ukraine: a glimpse into the life of soldiers on the front line

In eastern Ukraine, Russia continues its push to control the entire Donbas region. The strategic towns of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut have all seen intense bombardment in recent days, leaving Ukrainian forces to shore up their lines of defence. Our reporters Luke Shrago, Taline Oundjian and Achraf Abid spent the…

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The Guardian - UK

Bakhmut bombarded in wake of Ukraine attack on Russian air defences

Heavy shelling thought to be reprisal for Ukraine attack or preamble to renewed offensive on Donetsk cities

The Guardian - UK

Putin declares victory in Luhansk after fall of Lysychansk

Region’s governor says loss was painful and he expects Sloviansk and Bakhmut now to face heavy attack

Reuters

Russia will focus on Ukraine's Donetsk region after taking Luhansk, regional governor says

Russia will shift the main focus of its war in Ukraine to trying to seize all of the Donetsk region after capturing neighbouring Luhansk, the Luhansk region's governor said on Monday.

Reuters

Volunteers evacuate the elderly from Ukraine's Bakhmut, fearing Russian advance

Since Sievierodonetsk fell to Russian troops Ukrainian volunteer Eduard Skoryk has been getting more calls to evacuate frail and elderly people from Bakhmut, 70 km away, who fear their city in eastern Ukraine may be next.

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Four months into war, more Ukrainians decide to flee besieged areas

Four months into the Russian invasion on Ukraine, Lilya, a 22-year-old mother from the eastern city of Bakhmut, decided the time has come to leave the beleaguered region.

Reuters

Ukraine struggles to evacuate civilians from devastated eastern city

Ukraine said its forces were still trying to evacuate civilians from embattled Sievierodonetsk on Tuesday after Russia destroyed the last bridge to the city, Moscow's main target in its battle for control of eastern Ukraine.

The Guardian - UK

‘All hell broke loose’: weary soldiers tell of frontline holdout in Ukraine city

Troops in Bakhmut describe perilous fight as city standing in way of Russian advance is pounded by missiles

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's troops loosen pipeline blanketing Ukraine in deadly ammonia cloud

A pungent ammonia cloud has been seen hovering over the Ukrainian village of Maiske in Bakhmut, where a Russian military operation is thought to have caused its release

The Independent UK

In eastern Ukraine, keeping the lights on is a dangerous job

Russian attacks are knocking out power, water and gas to entire towns and cities as the fighting in eastern Ukraine inches forward

ABC News

Volunteers race to evacuate elderly, ill and Ukrainians with disability from the country's east as Russian forces advance

As fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces rages nearby, volunteers carry the elderly, ill and those with mobility problems out of their homes and on to evacuation trains in the country's east.

The Independent UK

Fleeing the Russians: Evacuations are slow, arduous, fraught

To a threatening soundtrack of air raid sirens and booming artillery, civilians are fleeing towns and cities in eastern Ukraine as Russian forces advance

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