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As it happened: Russia signals scaled-back war aims with focus on Donbas

Moscow signalled on Friday it was scaling back its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists, while French President Emmanuel Macron announced that EU leaders have agreed for officials in Brussels to make joint gas purchases for the bloc as it struggles with high prices amid…

France 24

In Ukraine, a Holocaust survivor killed by a Russian missile is buried in haste

KHARKIV, Ukraine — In a city stalked by death and bombardment, only four mourners gathered Thursday in a blustery chill for a final farewell to Boris Romantschenko.

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine reports some military gains as Russia invasion enters second month

LVIV, Ukraine — The war in Ukraine entered its second month Thursday with Ukrainian military forces fending off Russian ground attacks in major cities — and in some areas launching counteroffensives — as deadly bombings continued to worsen the country’s humanitarian crisis.

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Russia reframes war goals as Ukrainians advance near Kyiv

Moscow signalled on Friday it was scaling back its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the East as Ukrainian forces went on the offensive to recapture towns outside the capital Kyiv.

Reuters

Brave Ukrainian pharmacist shows horror injuries at the hands of Putin’s troops

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: A pharmacist from Kharkiv in the east of Ukraine agreed for a photo of her severely scarred face to be shared "to show the world" the results of Russian shelling

Daily Mirror

Funeral held for Holocaust survivor, 96, killed in Russian air strike in Putin's war

Boris Romanchenko, 96, survived four of Adolf Hitler’s worst concentration camps but was killed after his apartment in Kharkiv was hit by a Russian airstrike last week

Daily Mirror

VIDEO: Odessa Firefighters Rescue 2 Cats As Search For Survivors In Kharkiv Continues

Ukraine's President Zelensky has praised rescue workers, saying they are doing jobs usually reserved for military personnel.

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Latest Ukraine updates: Russia says first phase of war near end

Ukraine war news from March 25: Russian general says Moscow will push to fully capture eastern region of Donbas.

Al Jazeera

Fearing bombs and war, Kharkiv families spend a month underground

In a Ukrainian city battered by bombs since the start of Russia's invasion, Natalia Shaposhnik and her daughter Veronika live in a blue and yellow train parked in a metro station deep underground.

Reuters

Fighting continues unabated as Ukraine war enters its second month

LVIV, Ukraine — The war in Ukraine entered its second month Thursday with Ukrainian military forces fending off Russian ground advances in major cities even as deadly bombings continued to worsen the country’s humanitarian crisis.

Los Angeles Times

Zelenskyy implores NATO for more aid as war in Ukraine enters second month

KHARKIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an impassioned appeal to President Joe Biden and other NATO leaders for more aid Thursday as the war ravaging his country entered its second month with more bombing by Russian forces and civilian suffering in besieged cities.

Los Angeles Times

Dispatch from Kharkiv: The road cleaners are back at work but the shelling goes on

In our heroic but heavily damaged city we’ve become somewhat defiantly complacent. I’ve even just spent my third night in my own flat instead of an air raid shelter.

Evening Standard

Circus solidarity: Ukrainian performers find home in Hungary

Around 100 young Ukrainian students of circus arts fled their country as Russian bombings made conditions there too dangerous to remain

The Independent UK

African students wonder what next after Ukraine war upends education

Nkateko Muyimane and six fellow African students hid in a subway while Russian shells pounded Kharkiv, before fleeing on a train to Budapest they very nearly failed to board.

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Al Jazeera

Analysis: Russia falls back on urban siege warfare in Ukraine

Sequential urban sieges are brutally effective, but ensure lasting hatred and make long-term success unlikely.

The Guardian - UK

One month on: how a tragedy has unfolded in Ukraine

Russia’s failure to score a quick victory has led to a grimmer phase of the war, and much still hangs in the balance

Reuters

West assails Russian 'barbarism' as Ukrainians shelter from bombardment

Western leaders piled on military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine on Thursday and denounced Moscow's invasion of its neighbour as "barbarism" as thousands in besieged cities sheltered underground from Russian bombardment.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine latest updates: NATO will ‘respond’ to chemical weapons

Ukraine-Russia news from March 24: US President Joe Biden warns Russia against using chemical weapons in Ukraine.

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The Independent UK

Teacher who fled Kharkiv sets up Ukrainian-speaking school for child refugees

“At the end of the first day, one child said that it was exciting for them to be able to speak in their own language again,” Luda Sviridok said.

Reuters

Three generations of women flee war in Ukraine for Spain

When Russian bombs began falling on Kharkiv, Anna Kharazii knew she had to get out. After a harrowing voyage across Europe with her young daughter, mother and mother-in-law, the family is building a new life in Spain.

Evening Standard

Ukrainian family of 10 move into Cambridgeshire home donated by local man

Mick Swinhoe said he bought the property just before the war broke out, and initially planned to use it as a ‘project house’.

The Independent UK

Ukrainian family of 10 move into home provided by Cambridgeshire businessman

Mick Swinhoe said he bought the property just before the war broke out, and initially planned to use it as a ‘project house’.

Daily Mirror

Tragic photos show destroyed flat of concentration camp survivor killed in Putin's war

Searchers painstakingly rummaged through the rubble to find the body parts for a modest funeral in a city savaged by Vladimir Putin’s war machine

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson says killing of Holocaust survivor Boris Romantschenko an ‘appalling tragedy’

Boris Johnson has labelled the killing of a Holocaust survivor in a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv an “appalling tragedy”.

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine braces for more destruction as Biden warns of chemical attacks

KHARKIV, Ukraine — Embattled Ukrainian regions were preparing for more destruction Tuesday as local authorities and international observers warned that Russia, unable to take over key cities such as the capital of Kyiv, was launching hypersonic missiles and considering chemical attacks.

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