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The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Russia Pummels Vital Port of Odesa, Targeting Supply Lines

Russia pummeled the vital port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, an apparent effort to disrupt supply lines and Western weapons shipments critical to Kyiv's defense. Ukraine's ability to stymie a larger, better-armed Russian military has surprised many who had anticipated a much quicker end to the conflict. With the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Putin seeking goals beyond Ukraine’s east: US intelligence chief

Avril Haines says Russian president is preparing for a prolonged conflict as invasion turns into a ‘war of attrition’.

Al Jazeera

Russia's invasion of Ukraine at 'bit of a stalemate' -U.S. intel official

Russia's war in Ukraine is at a "bit of a stalemate" and Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be preparing for a long conflict, top U.S. intelligence officials said on Tuesday.

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U.S. intelligence assesses Putin is preparing for "prolonged conflict" beyond eastern Ukraine

The conflict is likely to become "more unpredictable and escalatory."

Axios

Has Russia already lost the war?

Russia had a decent plan, says warfare expert John Spencer. But military incompetence has led to total failure

Salon

In Ukraine’s Kherson region, civilians flee Russian-held territory on foot

A large swath of southern Ukraine is currently under Russian control, including most of the Kherson region, where Russian forces are preventing civilians from leaving the area. Yet thousands have been making the journey, fraught with risk, to get out. Our correspondent Gulliver Cragg sent this report from Ukrainian-held territory…

France 24

Putin marks Victory Day with little to show for 11-week war

Russian President Vladimir Putin marked his country’s biggest patriotic holiday without even uttering the word “Ukraine.”

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Putin’s Victory Day speech far from triumphant: Analysts

Russian President Vladimir Putin did not mention ‘Ukraine’ once during Victory Day celebrations in Moscow.

Al Jazeera

Zelensky says Russian bombing of Ukrainian school killed 60 people

Around 90 people had been sheltering inside the school in the village, which is part of eastern Donbas region.

Axios

Russia-Ukraine latest news: Women, children out of Mariupol plant

Latest Ukraine news from May 7: All women, children and elderly evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel mill.

Al Jazeera

Inside the Azovstal factory: Ukrainians 'only hope for a miracle'

The close-quarter battle inside the Azovstal factory the last Ukrainian stronghold of the strategic port city

WEKU

Defenders inside Ukrainian steel mill refuse to surrender

Ukrainian fighters battling Russian forces in the tunnels beneath Mariupol’s immense steel plant are refusing to surrender in the face of relentless attacks

The Independent UK

Live updates | Ukraine: 11 attacks repelled in Donbas region

Ukraine’s General Staff says the country’s forces made some gains on the border of the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv and repelled multiple Russian attacks in the east

The Independent UK

Ukraine latest updates: New Mariupol evacuation mission under way

Ukraine news May 5: UN says third convoy on way to evacuate civilians from ‘hell’ of the besieged Azovstal steel plant.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Pounds Ukraine, Targeting Supply of Western Arms

Russian forces pounded targets across Ukraine, taking aim at supply lines for foreign weapons in the west and intensifying an offensive in the east, as the European Union moved Wednesday to further punish Moscow for the war with a proposed ban on oil imports. The Russian military said Wednesday it…

Evening Standard

Putin’s forces ‘struggling to break through’ Ukrainian defences in Donbas, says UK

Russian battalion tactical groups are being limited in their attempts to ‘build momentum’

Reuters

Britain says Russia deploys 22 battalion tactical groups near Izium

Russia has deployed 22 battalion tactical groups near Ukraine's eastern city of Izium in an effort to advance along the northern axis of the Donbas region, Britain said on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Ukraine: Where is Donbas, and what are the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics?

Pro-Russian separatist regions in Donbas declared independence from Kyiv in 2014

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Los Angeles Times

As Ukrainians emerge from war ruins, US officials warn that Russia plans to start annexing territory

LVIV, Ukraine — As battered, sun-starved Ukrainians trickled out from the ruins of the port city of Mariupol, Russian forces Monday pressed new bombing runs in the east and south of the country and U.S. officials warned Moscow will attempt to annex larger chunks of territory it occupies.

Axios

U.S. says Russia's progress in Donbas has been "minimal at best"

A U.S. official describes the Russian operation as "very cautious, very tepid, very uneven."

Reuters

U.S. can't confirm top Russian general wounded during Donbas visit, U.S. official says

The United States believes that the Russian military's Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, visited Ukraine's Donbas region last week but cannot confirm media reports that he was wounded during fighting, a U.S. defense official said on Monday.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin leading Russia to civil war and total collapse, FSB agent claims

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is aware of the inevitability of civil war in Russia and is playing along the lines of a possible split, according to an insider

Manchester Evening News

Two British fighters captured in Ukraine could face death penalty

Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin, who have both lived in Ukraine for years, were caught by Russian soldiers in the disputed Donbas region

The Independent UK

Ukraine: Where is Donbas, and what are the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics?

Pro-Russian separatist regions in Donbas declared independence from Kyiv in 2014

The Guardian - UK

Donbas nursing home residents evacuated after New Orleans fundraiser

Ukrainian expat raises money to rescue last 12 residents of hospice in Chasiv Yar on frontline of Russian invasion

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