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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy Visits Recently Retaken Strategic City

Hand on heart, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watched his country’s flag rise Wednesday above the recaptured city of Izium, making a rare foray outside the capital while highlighting Moscow’s embarrassing retreat from a Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russian forces left the war-scarred city last week as Kyiv's soldiers pressed a stunning advance…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kharkiv triumph raises Ukrainian spirits – and victory hopes

Ukraine has reclaimed 8,000sq km of territory this month inflicting serious blow to Russian military ambitions.

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine at a glance: what we know on day 203 of the invasion

Volodymyr Zelenskiy says around 8,000 sq km have been liberated in counteroffensive in north-east Ukraine

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New frontline in Ukraine is close to Luhansk separatist 'border' - TASS cites commander

The frontline in eastern Ukraine is approaching the borders of territory claimed by the separatist Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), a senior Russian-backed LPR military commander told the TASS news agency on Wednesday.

Reuters

Commentary: Putin and the possibility of defeat in Ukraine

There were fireworks in Moscow as the Russian military retreated hastily from the key town of Izyum in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Sept. 10. The Russian capital wasn’t actually celebrating the debacle: The display was part of its City Day festivities. But there could hardly be a better illustration of…

Tribune News Service

Ukraine's schools race to build bomb shelters before term starts

Svitlana tears up thinking of the bombing that leveled her son Illia's school in Lysychansk, a city in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk now occupied by Russian forces, but she is determined to ensure the eighth-grader continues his studies.

Reuters

Ukrainian 'traitor' who switched sides to Russia assassinated in car bomb attack

After defecting the to the Moscow-based Luhansk People's Republic, former internal security service officer Askyar Laishev died after being attacked by resistance officers

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Six months of war: Ukraine regains initiative, but makes no push

Western allies provided Ukraine enough assistance to deprive Russia of victory but not to defeat it, analysts say.

Al Jazeera

Fate of Ukrainian lands held by Russia still seems unclear

As the war in Ukraine nears its six-month mark, Russia faces multiple problems in the territory it has taken over

The Independent UK

Timeline: Week 25 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 25 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine says forces have taken out bridge in Kherson impacting Russian supply lines

Ukraine’s forces are embarking on a counteroffensive in the Russian-occupied southern region of Kherson

The Independent UK

Ukraine destroys vital supply bridges in Russian-occupied Kherson, says UK

The bridge is largely unusable for military purposes after it was struck by Ukrainian precision strikes

Evening Standard

Russian shelling heavy in east; Ukraine strikes key bridge

Ukrainian officials say Russia’s military have shelled residential areas across Ukraine while their own fighters damaged the last working bridge over a river in occupied southern Ukraine, hurting Russia's ability to resupply its military

The Independent UK

Timeline: Week 24 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 24 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

US Envoy: Russia Intends to Dissolve Ukraine from World Map

The US ambassador to the United Nations said Friday there should no longer be any doubt that Russia intends to dismantle Ukraine “and dissolve it from the world map entirely.” Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the UN Security Council that the United States is seeing growing signs that Russia is laying the…

Reuters

Some wounded Russian soldiers find compensation elusive, despite Putin’s pledge - sources

A week into Moscow’s war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a gesture of solidarity with his soldiers at the front: injured men could claim compensation of three million roubles, equivalent to about $50,000 or the amount an average Russian worker would earn in four years.

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Timeline: Week 22 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 22 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Daily Mirror

Russian soldiers who refuse to fight are 'being held captive in torture pits'

Russian contracted soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine are allegedly being held in custody in Luhansk in horrendous conditions after commanders reneged on a leave agreement

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Google to be banned in Ukraine’s occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions

Leader of self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic accuses search engine of promoting ‘terrorism and violence against all Russians’

Daily Mirror

'Hellhole' where Vladimir Putin soldier who refuses to fight being held

Hundreds of Russian mutineers are being held captive in garages and cellars in Ukraine's occupied eastern Luhansk region - where cruel guards only feed their prisoners once a day and try to break them down psychologically so they return to the front

Tribune News Service

Russia moves to annex occupied Ukrainian land by September

The Kremlin is in a dash to hold referendums in Ukrainian territories occupied by its troops to give grounds for President Vladimir Putin to absorb them into Russia as early as September, according to people familiar with the strategy.

The Guardian - UK

Russia may seek to occupy more territory in Ukraine, says foreign minister

Sergei Lavrov’s televised remarks give signal Kremlin is planning a campaign to annex more regions

Daily Mirror

Russian minister's chilling Ukraine warning as military 'no longer only focused on east'

After five months of the brutal invasion, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia’s military targets now go farther than just the so-called People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk

Reuters

Russian-held Popasna in Ukraine is a ghost town after end of siege

Two months after falling to Russian troops, the eastern Ukrainian town of Popasna that once was home to 20,000 residents has turned into a ghost town with little sign of life.

Al Jazeera

Timeline: Week 20 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 20 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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