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The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Kyiv ‘unprecedented in modern times’, says US – as it happened

First time a US president visited a ‘country at war where US military does not control critical infrastructure’, says national security adviser

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia hit by 'extraordinarily significant' losses in east

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gives an update on the areas experiencing the heaviest fighting, while Russia warns France that Moscow remembers the fate of Napoleon Bonaparte as it accuses the French president of duplicitous diplomacy.

ABC News

Ukraine's Zelenskiy: Russia hit by "extraordinarily significant" losses in east

Ukraine's military is inflicting "extraordinarily significant" losses on Russian forces near the town of Vuhledar in the eastern Donbas region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday.

Reuters

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'We have to take more risks': Ukrainian forces hold the line as battle for Donbas heats up

Nearly a year after the invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops are trying to seize the moment by overwhelming Ukrainian defences before the deployment of promised new weapons from Western nations. Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold the line with outdated equipment against the 320,000 Russian soldiers currently amassed in the…

France 24

A year of Russia’s war in Ukraine: Your simple guide

Ukraine says a renewed Russian offensive is under way following 12 months of bloodshed.

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine war: Nato seeing start of new Russian offensive already, says Stoltenberg

As it happened: Nato secretary general said Putin sending thousands more troops and accepting big losses to pile pressure on Ukrainians

The Guardian - AU

Wagner Owner Says War in Ukraine Will Drag On for Years

The owner of the Russian Wagner Group private military contractor actively involved in the fighting in Ukraine has predicted that the war could drag on for years. Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video interview released late Friday that it could take 18 months to two years for Russia to fully…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Widows of Russian fighters killed in Ukraine war given baffling fur coat gifts

The coats were being given to Russian women whose husbands had been invading the Donbas - in a donation drive organised by the wife of a convicted war criminal

Daily Mirror

Russia assembles troops for possible offensive in Luhansk, Ukraine says

‘Battles for the region are heating up’ as Russian forces are located in Donetsk

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian troops begin training on German Leopard tanks in Europe

Ukrainian forces begin training on German Leopard tanks on Monday, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said, ahead of their delivery to the front line. With Russian forces keeping Ukrainian troops tied down with fighting in the eastern Donbas region, Kyiv is urgently awaiting deliveries of the tanks from its Western…

France 24

Russian Forces Keep Up Pressure as Ukraine Anniversary Nears

Russian forces are keeping Ukrainian troops tied down with fighting in the eastern Donbas region as Moscow assembles additional combat power there for an expected offensive in the coming weeks, Ukrainian officials said Monday. Weeks of intense fighting continued to rage around the city of Bakhmut and the nearby towns…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian forces keep up pressure as Ukraine anniversary nears

Officials in Ukraine say Russian forces are keeping Ukrainian troops tied down with fighting in the eastern Donbas region

The Independent UK

Fierce Fighting in North of Ukraine’s Bakhmut, Says Russian Head of Wagner Group

The head of Russia's private Wagner militia said on Sunday that fierce fighting was ongoing in the northern parts of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which has been the focus of Russian forces' attention for weeks. Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the founder and head of the Wagner group, said his soldiers were…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine will fight to hold 'fortress' Bakhmut as long as it can - Zelenskiy

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday Ukraine would fight to hold on to the eastern "fortress" city of Bakhmut for as long as it could, and urged the West to supply long-range weapons to help Kyiv push Russian forces out of the Donbas region.

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The Independent UK

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

New Zealander killed in Ukraine helped hundreds, parents say

The parents of a New Zealand scientist who was killed in Ukraine say he helped save hundreds of people while volunteering in the dangerous Donbas region

France 24

Would tanks turn the tide? Pressure mounts on Germany to supply Ukraine

Why the tanks? Vladimir Putin wanted a lightning capture of Kyiv, but seems happy to settle for a long artillery war that potentially lasts for years. Ukraine's allies argue that only tanks can speed up a win. We ask why and look at the World War I-style trench warfare that's…

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war live: Boris Johnson says Ukrainians should get ‘all the tools they need’ – as it happened

Former UK prime minister weighs in on tank debate as he visits Borodyanka; Polish PM criticises German silence on tanks as ‘unacceptable’

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Russia increases shelling in regions outside Ukraine's Donbas - officials

Russia increased shelling of Ukraine's eastern regions outside the main front line in the Donbas industrial area, officials from the Zaporizhzhia and Sumy regions said on Saturday.

Evening Standard

Ukraine’s defeat in Donbas is a victory for Russia’s growing mafia state

The map is moving again. In Eastern Ukraine, after months of severe retreats, Vladimir Putin’s forces made their first significant advance: capturing the salt mine town of Soledar. It wasn’t, however, General Valery Gerasimov, the Kremlin’s military chief in Ukraine, who first rushed to claim victory — posing in a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Putin: Ukraine Action Aimed to End 'War' Raging since 2014

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Moscow's action in Ukraine was intended to stop a “war” that has raged in eastern Ukraine for many years. Speaking at a meeting with veterans, Putin said that Moscow had long sought to negotiate a settlement to the conflict in Ukraine's eastern industrial…

The Independent UK

A loving dad and his injured son pay war's costs in Ukraine

In a Ukrainian hospital ward for wounded soldiers, where daylight barely penetrates, a father talks to his injured son for hours

France 24

The battle for Bakhmut: Russia's bloody bid for Ukraine breakthrough

Soledar, a salt-mining town of 10,000 people in eastern Ukraine, is the new focal point of a war where the Kremlin badly needs some good news from the battlefield. We ask who controls the town that's a gateway to the Donbas city of Bakhmut, where the Russians have been pushing…

Reuters

Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Russia puts top general in charge of invasion

Russia ordered its top general on Wednesday to take charge of its faltering invasion of Ukraine in the biggest shake-up yet of its malfunctioning military command structure.

Reuters

Factbox-Why Russia is targeting the Ukrainian town of Soledar

Russian and Ukrainian forces were engaged in intense fighting on Wednesday over the town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine - a stepping stone in Moscow's push to capture the entire Donbas region - with the Russians appearing to have the upper hand.

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