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Russia increases shelling, air strikes in Bakhmut - Ukrainian general

Russian forces are stepping up their use of heavy artillery and air strikes in the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the commander of Ukraine's ground forces said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Ukraine-Russia war – live: Putin visits occupied Kherson as G7 condemns nuclear plan

Russian president attends military command meeting in Kherson

The Independent UK

Ukraine official: We will launch counteroffensive when ready

A top Ukrainian official says that Ukraine will launch its counteroffensive against Russian troops when the country is ready

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Russia says Wagner fighters take two more blocks in battered Bakhmut

Russia said on Sunday that Wagner mercenary units supported by airborne troops had captured two more city blocks in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, target of a major offensive by Moscow.

Reuters

Russia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv’s forces in ‘unprecedented’ bloody battles in Bakhmut – as it happened

Intense fighting in middle of eastern city as Russia claims advances; Sloviansk death toll rises to 11 while Russian shelling also kills two in Kherson

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 417 of the invasion

Death toll from Russian attack on Sloviansk apartment block rises to 11; Moscow claims Wagner forces have captured two more areas of Bakhmut

The Guardian - AU

Fighting in Bakhmut intensifies as Russia mounts three-prong assault on Ukraine defenders

The war of attrition in Bakhmut is reported to be reaching a climax as Russian mercenaries grip the ravaged city in a pincer movement.

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Russia Says Wagner Fighters Seize 2 More Parts of Bakhmut

Fighters of Russia's Wagner mercenary group have captured two more areas of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Russia's Defense Ministry said on Saturday. Wagner has spearheaded Russia's attempt to take Bakhmut since last summer in what has been the longest and deadliest battle of the war for both sides. Reuters…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia-Ukraine war live: new Russian law shows Moscow expects lengthy conflict, warns UK — as it happened

UK Ministry of Defence says Kremlin has made it harder for civilians to avoid being drafted into the army

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine reports unprecedentedly bloody fighting in Bakhmut

Ukrainian and Russian armed forces are fighting extraordinarily bloody battles in the smashed eastern city of Bakhmut, but pro-Kyiv forces are still holding on, Ukraine's military said on Saturday.

Reuters

Russian strike kills 9 Ukrainian civilians

SLOVIANSK, Ukraine: Russia has shelled a block of flats in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, killing nine people, authorities said on Saturday, including a two-year-old boy who was rescued from the rubble but died on his way to hospital.

Bangkok Post

Russian forces bear down on Ukrainian defenders in Bakhmut

Analysts and Russian officials say the battle for the eastern Ukraine city of Bakhmut is heating up again

The Independent UK

Russia uses horror incendiary thermite shells with lethal combustion at 2,700C

Vladimir Putin's army used incendiary thermite shells overnight as the Kremlin leader 'demands Bakhmut is taken by end of month' in his ongoing invasion of Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Drones sold at Walmart help keep Ukraine in the battle for Bakhmut

BAKHMUT, Ukraine — The Russian infantrymen slinked back and forth in twos and threes to a house in one of this embattled city's devastated neighborhoods, ferrying ammunition, an automatic grenade launcher and a heavy machine gun ahead of a planned attack.

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Reuters

Eight dead in Sloviansk strike as Ukrainians said to pull back in Bakhmut

A Russian missile strike killed eight people in eastern Ukraine on Friday as a British assessment said Ukrainian troops had been forced to withdraw from parts of the city of Bakhmut, the focus of Moscow's slow advance through the region.

France 24

Russian shelling in Ukraine's eastern city of Sloviansk kills at least eight

The Russian shelling of a residential building in Sloviansk on Friday killed at least eight people and injured 21, according to the Donetsk regional governor. Also on Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said that China won't sell weapons to either side in the war in Ukraine, in response to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine Forces Pull Back as Russia Mounts ‘Re-Energized’ Bakhmut Assault, UK Says

Ukrainian troops have been forced to withdraw from some territory in the battlefield city of Bakhmut as Russia mounts a renewed assault there with intense artillery fire over the past two days, Britain said in an intelligence update on Friday. "Russia has re-energized its assault on the Donetsk Oblast town…

Reuters

Ukraine forces pull back as Russia mounts 're-energised' Bakhmut assault, UK says

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Evening Standard

Ukraine army in ‘orderly withdrawals’ from parts of Bakhmut, says UK

Ukrainian forces have made “orderly withdrawals” from parts of the eastern town of Bakhmut after the Russian military stepped up its attacks, British defence chiefs said on Friday.

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy and UK prime minister discuss accelerating military support for Ukraine – as it happened

Rishi Sunak also condemns beheading of Ukrainian prisoner of war as leaders discuss situation on battlefield

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 415 of the invasion

MoD says Russian and Wagner troops are making gains in Donetsk frontline town; US arrests 21-year-old air national guardsman over Pentagon leaks

The New Daily

Ukraine reports unrelenting Russian attacks on Bakhmut

Ukraine says the eastern city of Bakhmut is coming under heavy attack, as Russia vows to end a deal allowing grain to be exported through the Black Sea.

The Conversation

Bakhmut is increasingly a quagmire that works to Russia's advantage

The Battle for Bakhmut raging in eastern Ukraine has captured the attention of the outside world.

Al Jazeera

‘Eyes and ears’: Could drones prove decisive in the Ukraine war?

How Ukraine is looking to drones, used for reconnaissance and guided-missile attacks, to win the war.

The New Daily

Ukraine rejects Russian Wagner Bakhmut control claims

Ukrainian officials say the country's forces control more than the 20 per cent of Bakhmut, rejecting statements from the Russian Wagner mercenary group.

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