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‘Our own front line’: Ukrainian surgeons see wave of wounded soldiers since counteroffensive began

A surge of wounded soldiers has coincided with the major counteroffensive Ukraine launched in June to try to recapture its land from Russian forces

The Independent UK

US says Ukraine has significant combat power not yet committed to the war

The top U.S. military officer says Ukrainian forces have a “significant amount of combat power” that hasn’t yet been committed to the war

The Independent UK

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Kyiv criticised for lack of gratefulness at Nato summit; foreign volunteers describe fighting Russian mercenaries

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Ukraine could show more ‘gratitude’ to nations supplying it with weapons, says Ben Wallace

Defence Secretary urges Volodymyr Zelensky to show more appreciation for military aid on the final day of the Nato summit in Lithuania

Evening Standard

Russia collects military equipment from Wagner, says defence ministry

Russia said Wednesday it had collected more than 2,000 pieces of military hardware from the Wagner mercenary group following the latter’s armed rebellion last month. Ukraine said Wednesday it had shot down 11 Russian drones overnight in a second consecutive night of attacks on the capital Kyiv, as NATO leaders…

France 24

Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy ‘doesn’t understand’ complaint from UK minister about Kyiv’s lack of gratitude – as it happened

Zelenskiy suggests Ukraine could ‘get up in the morning and express our words of gratitude personally to the minister’

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OPINION - The Standard View: If Ukraine is offered a Nato membership fudge, it must be one that enhances its security

President Joe Biden touched down at Stansted yesterday evening ahead of tea with the King and a meeting with the Prime Minister. The visit takes place before he heads to Lithuania for the Nato summit.

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How many Russians have died in Ukraine? Data shows what Moscow hides

Nearly 50,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war in Ukraine, according to a new statistical analysis

The Independent UK

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 502

As the conflict enters its 502nd day, these are the main developments.

Al Jazeera

Zelenskyy hails Ukraine's soldiers from a Black Sea island to mark 500 days of war

Speaking from Snake Island, Zelenskyy honored the Ukrainian soldiers who fought for the island and all other defenders of the country.

WEKU

The war pimps are still lying to us

Russia's invasion was a war crime. That's no excuse for the disastrous, destructive path of endless war

Salon

Greens refer PwC to Nacc; yes campaign holds voice events across the country – as it happened

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EU and Western allies commit to Ukraine's post-war reconstruction

The European Union and Ukraine's Western allies have promised to make Russia pay for its invasion, as governments and private investors met in London this week look at funding the country's reconstruction from the ravages of war.

Radio France Internationale

Ukraine recap: counteroffensive makes slow progress while diplomacy fails to make any ground at all

So the Ukrainian counteroffensive is well and truly underway, even if progress is measured in metres rather than the rapid advances that characterised Ukraine’s highly successful push last autumn. Volodymyr Zelensky himself has confirmed this, saying progress has been “slower than desired” and noting that the Russian invaders have mined…

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Zelensky seeks to recruit army of CEOs to rebuild Ukraine after Putin’s destruction

Volodymyr Zelensky sought on Wednesday to mobilise an army of top bosses to rebuild Ukraine in the biggest reconstruction effort since the Second World War.

France 24

Russia’s Wagner mercenary chief says Moscow ‘misleading Russians’ over Ukraine offensive

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin on Wednesday contradicted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s insistence that that there was a “lull” in Ukraine’s counteroffensive, saying in an audio message that “huge chunks” of Ukrainian territory have been regained by its army. Read our live blog to see how all the day's events unfolded.…

The Independent UK

African leaders visit Russia to discuss their peace plan with Putin, after Ukraine trip

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to host a group of African leaders who have traveled to Russia on a self-styled “peace mission” following a trip to Ukraine

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Missiles greet African peace mission visit in Ukraine

The leaders of South Africa, Senegal, Zambia, the Comoros and Egypt have met Ukrainian defence ministry representatives in the capital Kyiv.

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OPINION - Ukrainian journalist Olga Rodenko is one of the bravest women I have met, and here’s why

Exactly a year ago, on a similar scorching June day, I interviewed the editor of The Kyiv Independent, 34-year-old Olga Rudenko, and her CEO, Daryna Shevchenko, at the Founders Forum tech conference in Soho House, Oxfordshire. The luxury of our surroundings made only starker the separation between what was happening…

France 24

In Kyiv, South African president calls on Russia and Ukraine to ‘de-escalate’ conflict

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday called on both Ukraine and Russia to de-escalate their conflict in order to “settle” the war in Ukraine. Ramaphosa is one of a group of African leaders that arrived in the Ukrainian capital earlier on Friday as air raid sirens sounded and explosions…

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Ukraine: We will rebuild everything destroyed by Putin, says Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of London recovery summit

Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Thursday to “rebuild everything” destroyed in Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s war ahead of a recovery summit in London.

The Conversation

Ukraine's long-awaited counteroffensive has finally begun - but why now and to what end?

A few days into the news that the Ukrainian army has recaptured territorities from the Russian occupying forces, Kyiv’s counteroffensive still has plenty to intrigue us. Announced in autumn 2022, this summer 2023 campaign has been a long time coming. So much so that it almost came to seem like…

France 24

‘A large part of the Ukrainian counteroffensive hasn’t been put into action yet’

With Ukraine now in the early stages of a long-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia, Philippe Gros, a senior research fellow at French security and defence think tank Foundation for Strategic Research, talks to FRANCE 24 about Kyiv’s likely military strategies.

The Week

The Ukraine counter-offensive and its likely outcomes

Ukraine’s long-awaited counter-offensive against Russian forces aimed at retaking swathes of territory captured since the war began last February appears to be ramping up, with results so far decidedly mixed.

The Independent UK

How significant is the reported recapture of the first Ukrainian villages from Russia?

Resistance appears to have won back four small towns in Donetsk and three in Zaporizhzhia in first skirmishes of counteroffensive

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