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Russian-Backed Separatist Region of East Ukraine Blocks Facebook, Instagram

The Russian-backed self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine said on Wednesday it had blocked access to Facebook and Instagram, aligning itself with Russia's policy on the US-based social networks. Moscow recognized the DPR and a second region of eastern Ukraine - the Luhansk People's Republic - as independent…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Around 100 civilians ‘remain trapped in Azovstal steel plant’ in Mariupol

Donetsk regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said those left behind are the civilians that ‘the Russians have not selected’

Evening Standard

Putin's Victory Day speech gives no clue on Ukraine escalation

President Vladimir Putin exhorted Russians to battle in a defiant Victory Day speech on Monday, but was silent about plans for any escalation in Ukraine, despite Western warnings he might use his Red Square address to order a national mobilisation.

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Battles rage in Ukraine’s Luhansk as Russia targets main city

Heavy fighting is under way for Severodonetsk and Russian troops are attempting to cut it off.

Al Jazeera

Sixty feared dead in bombing of Ukraine school; G7 condemns Putin

As many as 60 people are feared to have been killed when a bomb struck a village school in eastern Ukraine, the regional governor said on Sunday while Russian forces continued shelling the last holdout of Ukrainian resistance in the ruined southeastern port of Mariupol.

Reuters

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Evacuees share horror of months in Avozstal steelworks bunker; why Putin’s shift to the east could lengthen the war; and tattoos of Ukraine resistance

The Guardian - AU

VIDEO: War Crime: Russia Accused Of Shelling Attack On Coke Plant Workers

The attack was carried out on the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant in the city of Avdiivka, in Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine.

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Heavy fighting at Mariupol steel plant where 30 children remain trapped

Convoy of buses left port city on Wednesday, says Donetsk governor

The Independent UK

Russian Forces Press Ukraine Offensive as EU Weighs Oil Sanctions

Russian forces have launched a major assault on the holdout Azovstal steel plant in the devastated port city of Mariupol while pounding sites across eastern Ukraine, as the European Union moves to punish Moscow with oil sanctions. Three months into the war, Moscow has focused its fresh offensive on Ukraine's…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia seeks to annex occupied Ukraine as invasion goals shift

Nearly 10 weeks into the war and with its troops making only marginal gains in Ukraine’s east, Russia is focused on cementing both military and political control over the territory it has taken so far.

Tribune News Service

Donetsk governor says 21 residents killed, 27 injured in Russian attacks

Russian attacks in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region killed 21 civilians and injured 27 on Tuesday, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said in an online post.

Reuters

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is 'personal' for soldiers protecting their families in the Donetsk region

Ukrainians on the frontline of Russia's war don't pretend to know what's going through the minds of "the enemy", but if they had to guess, they think their invaders' hearts aren't in it. That's not so for the local soldiers.

ABC News

At least 10 killed in Russian shelling of coking plant in eastern Ukraine - local governor

At least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded by Russian shelling of a coking plant in the city of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, the regional governor said.

Reuters

Orphaned girl taken by Russian soldiers reunited with grandfather

Kira Obedinsky, 12, was taken to Russian-controlled Donetsk after being injured in a blast in Mariupol that killed her father

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Al Jazeera

US: Russia plans to annex separatist statelets in Ukraine

Moscow may annex Luhansk and Donetsk ‘republics’ mid-May and turn Kherson into proxy state, US ambassador to OSCE says.

The Independent UK

Ukraine crisis: What are the Minsk agreements?

Emmanuel Macron insisted revival of accords from 2014 and 2015 ‘only path on which peace can be built’

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

Daily Mirror

Brit fighter arrested by Russia forced to read humiliating confession on video

Andrew Hill, from Plymouth, is apparently being held in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine and being made to read a statement renouncing the involvement of mercenary fighters in Ukraine

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Three civilians killed in Russian shelling of Vuhledar in east Ukraine, president's office says

At least three civilians were killed in Russian shelling of the city of Vuhledar in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, the Ukrainian president's office said.

The Guardian - UK

EU drafts proposal to phase in a ban on Russian oil – as it happened

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Wales Online

British 'mercs' captured while fighting for Ukraine threatened with the death penalty

Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin charged with 'a number of crimes against civilians of the Donetsk People’s Republic'

The Independent UK

Ukraine crisis: What are the Minsk agreements?

Emmanuel Macron insisted revival of accords from 2014 and 2015 ‘only path on which peace can be built’

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

France 24

Civilians attempt evacuation from Ukraine’s besieged Mariupol

Ukrainian authorities attempted further evacuations from Mariupol on Monday, following an initial operation to remove around 100 civilians from the besieged Azovstal steel plant. Meanwhile, in Brussels, EU energy ministers held emergency talks as the bloc considers a phasing out of Russian oil imports. Read about the day’s events as…

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine latest updates: Germany ‘ready’ to ban Russian oil

Ukraine news from May 2: Economy minister says Berlin could back embargo, as EU energy ministers debate fresh sanctions.

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