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Ukraine confirms its troops have withdrawn from Soledar

Ukraine confirmed on Wednesday its troops had withdrawn from Soledar in eastern Ukraine, almost two weeks after Russian troops said they had captured the small salt-mining town.

Reuters

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

Ukraine Confirms Its Troops Have Withdrawn from Soledar

Ukraine confirmed on Wednesday its troops had withdrawn from Soledar in eastern Ukraine, almost two weeks after Russian troops said they had captured the small salt-mining town. "In order to preserve the lives of service personnel, the Defense Forces withdrew from Soledar," military spokesman Serhiy Cherevatyi was quoted as saying…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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

Tributes to two Britons killed in Ukraine who ‘saved over 400 lives’

Andrew Bagshaw and Christopher Parry went missing in the Donetsk region earlier in January – Parry’s family has confirmed they were killed

The Independent UK

Head of Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine's Donetsk says visited Soledar

The top Moscow-installed official in the occupied parts of the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine said late on Sunday that he had visited the town of Soledar that Russia claimed to had captured earlier this month.

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Ukrainian living in Glasgow tells of moment she returned home and witnessed mass blackouts

A Glasgow University Postdoctoral Research Associate from Ukraine, Anastasia Klimash, returned to her Dnipro to visit her friends and family following the Russian invasion.

Glasgow Live

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.

Al Jazeera

First U.N. aid convoy reaches sites near Ukraine's frontline

A U.N. spokesperson said a three-truck convoy brought aid to around 800 people close to Soledar in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region on Friday, the first such delivery to the area by the global body as it seeks to step up front-line aid in the war.

Reuters

Mykhaylo Mudryk's Chelsea contract clause emerges after Blues beat Arsenal to transfer

Mykhaylo Mudryk's Chelsea contract will see the Blues travel to play Shakhtar Donetsk in a friendly at Donbass Arena, as the Ukrainian club look to return to their home

Daily Mirror

‘Bring my mom back’: Ukrainian civilians vanish into Russian jails

Alina Kapatsyna often dreams about getting a phone call from her mother. In those visions, her mother tells her that she’s coming home. Men in military uniforms took 45-year-old Vita Hannych away from her house in eastern Ukraine in April. She never returned.

France 24

Ukrainian civilians vanish and languish in Russian-run jails

Many civilians have been detained by Russian forces since the war in Ukraine began

The Independent UK

Russian-installed authorities say they are in control of Ukraine's Soledar

Russian-installed authorities in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region said on Tuesday they were in control of Soledar, repeating their earlier claim about the salt-mining town where intense fighting has taken place.

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Shakhtar chief gives £20.5m of Mudryk fee to Ukrainian soldiers and families

The Shakhtar Donetsk president, Rinat Akhmetov, has donated £20.5m of Mykhaylo Mudryk’s Chelsea transfer fee to the Ukrainian war effort

Reuters

Soccer-Shakhtar Donetsk to allocate $25 million for aid in Ukraine

Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk will allocate $25 million to aid soldiers and their families, president Rinat Akhmetov said on Monday, a day after receiving a record transfer fee for winger Mykhailo Mudryk from Premier League club Chelsea.

Evening Standard

Chelsea willing to play Shakhtar in war-torn Donbass as part of £89m deal to sign Mykhaylo Mudryk

Chelsea will travel to Donetsk when the Ukrainian club is safe to return home after Russia’s invasion

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Shakhtar Donetsk chief reveals Chelsea friendly plan following Mykhailo Mudryk transfer

Chelsea had a whirlwind weekend to secure the services of Mykhailo Mudryk with a deal eventually being confirmed during the Blues' win over Crystal Palace

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Daily Mirror

Shakhtar chief donates huge sum to Ukraine war effort after £87m Mykhaylo Mudryk transfer

Shakhtar Donetsk held out in negotiations to extract the biggest possible transfer fee for Mykhaylo Mudryk - and the club's owner has donated to the war against Russia

Reuters

Ukraine forces retain control of Soledar despite Russian claims, governor says

Ukrainian forces are fighting to retain control of Soledar in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, the regional governor said on Saturday, contradicting Russian claims that Moscow's forces had captured the small town.

The Independent UK

Russia claims victory in Soledar – but Ukraine says its troops are holding on

Taking of Donetsk town would be a symbolic win for Vladimir Putin, but the scale of casualties may make it a pyrrhic victory

Tribune News Service

Russia claims Donbas town but Ukraine says it’s in control

Russia claimed Moscow’s troops had taken Soledar, a small town in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, in one of their first victories in months. Kyiv rejected the claim.

Bangkok Post

Ukraine resisting 'high intensity' offensive in Soledar

KYIV: Ukraine said Friday it was resisting a "high intensity" Russian offensive in Soledar, a town in the eastern Donetsk region where Moscow was deploying more troops.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Zelensky Promises 'Everything Necessary' to Defend Soledar from Russia

President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed that Ukrainian forces defending Bakhmut and Soledar in the east will be armed with everything they need to keep Russian troops at bay in some of the bloodiest battles of the war. Kyiv said its troops were fighting to retain control of the now-battered industrial…

Reuters

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.

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