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The Latest Breaking News from Luhansk

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

Eastern Donbas ‘extremely difficult’ for Ukrainians as Russia intensifies attacks

Luhansk governor says 568 civilians are holed up in chemical plant and Lysychansk being shelled ‘en masse’

The Guardian - UK

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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Russia sending large number of reserve troops to Sievierodonetsk - Ukrainian governor

(Corrects day of week in first paragraph to Saturday)

Reuters

After EU's nod, Ukraine vows to prevail as it battles Russian assaults

With a blessing for its EU ambitions and a pledge of unwavering support from Britain, Ukraine vowed on Saturday to prevail against Moscow as it battled Russian assaults near a key eastern city and multiple locations came under shell and missile attack.

Reuters

Ukrainian Special Forces Blow Up Pontoon Bridge As Russians Attempt To Cross Luhansk River

These video images purport to show Ukrainian special forces mining a pontoon bridge set up by Russian troops to cross a river in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk before it is blown to smithereens.

Zenger

Ukraine says evacuation from Sievierodonetsk chemical plant 'impossible'

The evacuation of 568 civilians sheltering in bunkers under the Azot chemical plant in the embattled city of Sievierodonetsk is currently impossible due to shelling and heavy fighting, the governor of Ukraine's Luhansk region said on Friday.

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Timeline: Week 16 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 16 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

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

The Guardian - UK

Here's what we know about the Azot chemical plant sheltering civilians during the Russian war in Ukraine

ABC News

Ukraine says Russian forces trying to attack simultaneously in nine directions

The head of Ukraine's military on Wednesday said Russia had concentrated its main strike forces in the north of Luhansk region and were trying to attack simultaneously in nine directions.

Reuters

Vladimir Putin loses yet another commander in Ukraine war as 53rd dies during invasion

Colonel Sergei Postnov had been on active duty with Russian forces close to Kyiv, in Kharkiv as well as more recently in the Luhansk region, and was killed on a combat mission

Daily Mirror

Russia-backed separatists say Ukraine has disrupted Sievierodonetsk humanitarian corridor

Russian-backed separatists from the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic said Ukraine has disrupted a humanitarian corridor from the Azot chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk, RIA news agency reported on Wednesday.

Reuters

Russians Control 80% of Contested City in Eastern Ukraine

Russian troops control about 80% of the fiercely contested eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk and have destroyed all three bridges leading out of it but Ukrainian authorities are still trying to evacuate the wounded, a regional official said Tuesday. Serhiy Haidai, governor of the eastern Luhansk region, acknowledged that a…

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Special Forces Destroy 3 Russian Multiple Rocket Launcher Vehicles That Targeted Sievierodonetsk

The Ukrainians have said that the vehicles had been used to shell the city of Sievierodonetsk.

Axios

Evacuations "impossible" after all 3 bridges to key Ukrainian city Severodonetsk destroyed

Fresh humanitarian supplies are also no longer possible in the epicenter for the battle of the Donbas.

ABC News

Sievierodonetsk cut off by Russian forces, last bridge into Donbas destroyed, Zelenskyy warns of 'brutal' battle ahead

As the fight for the Donbas region intensifies, Ukraine's President says it will be remembered as "one of the most brutal battles" in European history.

Reuters

Kremlin pledges support after Donbas separatist leader calls for more Russian forces

Russia's main goal of its military operation in Ukraine is to protect the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics, the Kremlin said on Monday, after the leader of one of the separatist regions asked for additional forces from Moscow.

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The Guardian - UK

Fears grow for Sievierodonetsk civilians as plant struck and bridges destroyed

Luhansk governor says Russia has ‘significant advantage’ but part of city is still under Ukrainian controlRussia-Ukraine war – latest updates

The Independent UK

Police investigating killings of 12,000 Ukrainians in war

Ukraine's national police chief says authorities are investigating the killings of more than 12,000 Ukrainians nationwide in the war Russia is waging

Reuters

Amid fierce fighting, Russian forces cut last Sievierodonetsk escape route

Russian forces tightened their grip on the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday, a Ukrainian official said, cutting off the last routes for evacuating citizens in a scene that echoed last month's siege of the port of Mariupol.

Los Angeles Times

Under relentless Russian bombardment, Severodonetsk and other eastern Ukrainian cities are slowly dying

LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine — How does a city die? To find out, turn to Severodonetsk, at the very edge of the Ukrainian government's control on the eastern front, and currently the focal point of the fight between its soldiers and the Russians who have invaded.

The Guardian - UK

Fighting in eastern Ukraine rages as Sievierodonetsk chemical plant hit

Regional governor says Azot plant, where hundreds of civilians are taking shelter, remains under Ukrainian control

Reuters

Russia destroys bridge over Ukrainian river, cutting escape route

Russian forces have blown up a bridge linking the embattled Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk to another city across the river, cutting off a possible evacuation route for civilians, local officials said on Sunday.

Al Jazeera

Casualty warnings as Russia said to use deadlier weapons in war

Moscow reportedly using older, deadlier missiles in fierce fighting for control of eastern Ukraine.

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