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Russian warship sinks; Ukraine says its missile is responsible

(This April 14 story corrects paragraph 21 to make clear that Moldova did not directly accuse Russia's army of trying to recruit its citizens; corrects third bullet point to say that Ukraine alleges Moscow is massing troops in Belarus and Transdniestria not Moldova and Transdniestria)

Reuters

Morning mail: Morrison abandons anti-corruption pledge, 765 civilian bodies found in Kyiv, rethinking work culture

Thursday: Long delays expected at domestic airports before Easter. Plus: WHO chief blames racism for greater focus on Ukraine than Ethiopia

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine braces for new Russian assault in the east

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asks for weapons donations, as Russia makes advances in Izium and Mariupol.

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Timeline: Week seven of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Ukrainian authorities expect a strong Russian offensive in the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

Al Jazeera

Panicking Russian tank crew 'blow up their own comrades' during Ukrainian ambush

A video appears to show a Russian tank marked with the distinctive 'V' firing its main canon at one of its own armoured vehicles during the confusion after a Ukrainian ambush

Daily Mirror

Ukraine's detention of oligarch close to Putin angers Moscow

The detention of fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, the former leader of a pro-Russian opposition party and a close associate of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, has been met with enthusiasm in Kyiv and irritation in Moscow

The Independent UK

Putin's propaganda playbook shows how an army of fake fact-checkers is sowing doubt and confusion

Voices sympathetic to Russia are posing as fact-checkers in a bid to sow doubt and confusion, and to drain sympathy from a world watching the invasion of Ukraine.

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Inside stricken Mariupol as 21,000 civilians killed and apartment blocks destroyed

Mariupol's mayor says 21,000 civilians have been killed during weeks of intense Russian bombardment in the city, while 100,000 people are still waiting to be evacuated

Daily Mirror

Ukraine's Zelenskiy and Biden discuss defensive aid and sanctions

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S. President Joe Biden discussed additional defensive and financial aid for Kyiv as well as sanctions and alleged Russian war crimes, the Ukrainian president said on Wednesday.

Reuters

‘These are everyone’s children’ – the moving story of a Ukrainian mother who has rescued nine children

Svitlana Kylivnyk fled across the border with her own two girls and seven of her friends’ children. Here she shares her story with Charline Bou Mansour and Ros Russell

Evening Standard

Kyiv comes back to life with a mix of sadness, dark humour and triumph

‘We will slowly recover the cultural life of our capital’, Ukraine’s culture minister says before a play in Kyiv

The Independent UK

‘They were hooligans’: Chernobyl locals reeling after Russian invasion

As troops leave exclusion zone and surrounding villages, Ukraine’s nuclear agency faces huge clean-up task

The Guardian - UK

More than 870,000 return to Ukraine amid ‘queues at border crossing’

Officials have urged caution saying it is still too early to return to areas around Kyiv

Evening Standard

Russia rejects Biden’s ‘genocide’ accusation, claims mass capture of Ukrainian troops

DNIPRO, Ukraine — As Russia sharply rejected President Joe Biden’s description of its wartime acts as “genocide,” Moscow on Wednesday asserted it had captured more than 1,000 Ukrainian troops in Mariupol, dealing what would be a heavy blow to defenders’ desperate efforts to hold the strategic southern port city.

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Reuters

Villagers in Ukraine left with mine-riddled forest after Russian retreat

Residents in Lubianka, a village northwest of Kyiv, are trying to rebuild their lives all while Ukrainian soldiers remove mines from a nearby forest where Russian troops had set up camp.

The Independent UK

Germany irritated by Ukraine's snub of a presidential visit

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticized a diplomatic snub by Ukraine for his country’s president and defended Berlin’s record on delivering weapons to Kyiv

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine seeks to patch up relations with Germany after snub to president

Relations strained after Kyiv said it would prefer visit from German chancellor

Reuters

Russia tells Ukraine to 'watch out' after it captures pro-Kremlin politician

Russia on Wednesday told Ukraine to "watch out" after its former Soviet neighbour captured pro-Kremlin politician Viktor Medvedchuk, turning down Kyiv's offer of a swap with a warning that those holding him might soon be detained themselves.

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Salon

Putin's massive fail: He's no commander

Putin's no master strategist: He's incompetent at warcraft, and Ukrainians and Russians are paying a terrible price

Reuters

Scholz irritated by German president's aborted Ukraine visit

Germany's president would have liked to visit Ukraine and the fact that he was not received there was "irritating", Chancellor Olaf Scholz told RBB public radio, adding that he had no immediate plans himself to visit Kyiv.

Los Angeles Times

Russia claims 1,000 POWs captured in Mariupol; Ukraine says fight for city continues

DNIPRO, Ukraine — Russia asserted Wednesday that more than 1,000 Ukrainian troops in Mariupol had surrendered, dealing what would be a heavy blow to defenders’ desperate efforts to hold the strategic southern port city. But the claim could not be verified, and Ukraine said the battle continued.

The Guardian - UK

More than 1,000 Ukraine marines have surrendered in Mariupol, says Russia

Moscow makes claim as leaders of four countries bordering Russia arrive in Kyiv in show of support for Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Bodies of 765 civilians recovered so far in Kyiv region, says prosecutor

Thirty children among dead found by Ukrainian authorities investigating killings, torture and rape

The Guardian - UK

‘I cry every day’: in the stands with Ukrainians as Dynamo Kyiv play again

Club started ‘match for peace’ series in Warsaw watched by thousands of refugees from Russia’s attack on their homeland

Reuters

Explainer-How to prove genocide, the most serious war crime?

Washington and Kyiv are accusing Russia of genocide in Ukraine, but the ultimate war crime has a strict legal definition and has rarely been proven in court since it was cemented in humanitarian law after the Holocaust.

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