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The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

Britain says Russia boosts pressure in advance on Ukraine's Lysychansk

Russian forces advancing towards the Ukrainian city of Lysychansk are putting increasing pressure on the surrounding region, including the twin city of Sievierodonetsk, Britain's defence ministry said on Thursday.

Reuters

Aiden Aslin: ‘Time running out’ to stop execution of Briton sentenced to death by Donetsk separatists

Family of 28-year-old say his captors have told him ‘nobody from UK has made contact and that he will be executed’

The Independent UK

Russia bears down on Lysychansk, targeting police and judicial buildings

Moscow’s troops move on to city neighbouring Sievierodonetsk, after capturing all but chemical plant there

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Will the war with Russia rein in Ukraine’s oligarchs?

The conflict may harm rich figures in financial terms and hand Zelenskyy victory in his battle against their influence.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine school blasted by Russian incendiary bomb as '200 schools destroyed'

School Number 6 in Avdiivka, a city in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk, was set on fire after Russian troops used incendiary bombs to destroy the third school in the area

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin ally says Britain 'arrogant' over death sentence given to two Brits

The Brits surrendered to the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic forces in Mariupol, and have since been sentenced by a court in the rebel region to be shot by a firing squad

Daily Mirror

Russia: Britain asks for help over Donetsk death sentences

Russia's ambassador in London said on Tuesday that Britain had asked for Moscow's help in connection with two British citizens sentenced to death in a Russian-backed separatist region for fighting for Ukraine.

Reuters

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Russian forces seize frontline Donbas village: Ukrainian official

Head of the Severodonetsk district military administration says Toshkivka is now ‘controlled entirely by the Russians’.

Al Jazeera

US volunteer fighters captured in Ukraine could face death penalty, says Russia

Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, 27, from Alabama have been taken into detention in Donetsk

The Guardian - UK

Kremlin says it does not know location of captured U.S. 'mercenaries'

The Kremlin said on Tuesday it did not know the location of two Americans captured while fighting in eastern Ukraine, but that they were mercenaries and could be sentenced to death in Russian-backed breakaway territories.

Reuters

Moscow fumes over Lithuania rail ban to Russian region

(This June 21 story corrects in paragraph 4 to show gas flows via Ukraine and Nord Stream 1 pipeline have fallen, removes reference to Russia cutting flows via Ukraine as act of retaliation)

Reuters

Ukrainian missiles hit Black Sea gas platforms, say Russian officials

Reports of strikes come as Russia’s forces said to be gathering for final assault on Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk

The Guardian - UK

Moment Ukrainian Soldiers Shoot Down Massive Russian Helicopter Gunship

This is the moment Ukrainian soldiers reportedly shoot down a massive Russian helicopter gunship.

Zenger

Ukraine latest updates: Russians at Severodonetsk industry zone

Ukraine news from June 20: Russian troops enter Severodonetsk industrial zone, according to Luhansk’s regional governor.

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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.

Al Jazeera

Russia advances in battle for key eastern Ukraine city

Moscow claims its forces have taken control of a village near the industrial city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war could last for years, say western leaders

Nato secretary general says Kyiv will need long-term military support as Russia masses reserves outside Sievierodonetsk

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine’s forces remain on the defensive in the eastern Donbas region – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 116 of the invasion

Nato chief warns war could last years; Russia sends many reservists to Sievierodonetsk battle, says regional governor

Reuters

Shelling traps 77 miners in Donetsk region - RIA, citing separatists

Shelling has trapped 77 miners in a coal mine in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine after power to the mine was cut off, Russia's state RIA news agency reported on Saturday.

The Guardian - UK

Moscow’s war in Ukraine could take years, Stoltenberg says –as it happened

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Daily Mirror

Russian helicopter blasted by Ukrainian missile before crashing in huge fireball

The Russian chopper burst into a ball of flames after being struck by a Ukrainian missile in an area just inside the region of Donetsk, on the border with Zaporizhzhia

The Guardian - AU

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Ukraine holds Sievierodonetsk as battle for Donbas enters critical phase; the Russians rejecting Putin and fighting for Kyiv

Daily Mirror

Russian TV claims UK fighters in Ukraine will be 'executed with British guns and bullets'

Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner have been sentenced to death by a court in separatist Donetsk People's Republic, with their firng squad said to be aimed with British weaponry and bullets

The Guardian - UK

UK aims sanctions at Russians accused of abducting Ukrainian children

Maria Lvova-Belova accused by Ukraine of organising capture of vulnerable children in Luhansk and Donetsk

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