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The Latest Breaking News from Bakhmut

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

A daring cross-border raid in Belgorod; Russia and China deepen their economic ties

The Guardian - AU

What is the current state of play in Ukraine? Kyiv plans its counteroffensive and issues a last-chance offer for Russian forces

Ukraine has long been warning of a spring counteroffensive and despite next week marking a new season, Kyiv has a deadly warning for those Russian soldiers inside its border.

ABC News

Zest, shiny new jets, and a counter-offensive — is Bakhmut’s spring stalemate finally ending?

After a brutal 10-month slog that has killed tens of thousands on both sides, Ukrainian soldiers are striking back against Russian occupying forces in the Donbas. Tom Mutch reports from the frontline

Evening Standard

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Ukraine-Russia war news – latest: Putin’s troops strike hospital in deadly Dnipro missile attack

Fire engulfs a psychological clinic following Russian missile strike

The Independent UK

More than 20,000 troops died in Bakhmut: Wagner boss

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian private army Wagner, says he's lost more than 20,000 men in the battle for Bakhmut.

The New Daily

After Bakhmut: On the latest phase in the Ukraine war

With Russia and Ukraine determined to continue the war, there is no hope for peace or talks

The Hindu

Russia has started deploying tactical nuclear warheads to Belarus, says Lukashenko

On the battlefied in Ukraine, the Wagner mercenary group says it is withdrawing from the eastern city of Bakhmut and will hand over its position to Russian forces

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Russian Wagner mercenaries handing Bakhmut to regular army

Russia's Wagner private army started handing over its positions in Bakhmut to regular Russian troops on Thursday, five days after declaring full control of the devastated eastern Ukrainian city following the longest and bloodiest battle of the war.

Reuters

Russia's mercenaries send back bodies of U.S. and Turkish citizens from Ukraine

Russia's most powerful mercenary on Thursday said he was sending back the bodies of a U.S. citizen who was killed in fighting in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and that of a Turkish citizen who was found dead in a blown up building.

Reuters

Wagner chief says his mercenaries are exiting Bakhmut to hand over to Russian army

Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said his forces have begun pulling out of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut to hand responsibility to the Russian army.

Tribune News Service

Russia moving nuclear warheads to Belarus, says dictator Lukashenko

Countries signed pact that provides for Moscow to deploy weapons in Belarus

The Guardian - UK

Mercenaries hand Bakhmut over to Russian military

MOSCOW: The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group said on Thursday his troops had started transferring their positions in the flashpoint eastern Ukraine city of Bakhmut to the Russian military.

Bangkok Post

Ukraine says Russian soldiers replace Wagner units in Bakhmut outskirts

Russia has replaced Wagner private military units with regular troops in the outskirts of Bakhmut but the group's fighters remain inside the devastated city, Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said on Thursday.

Reuters

Russia's Wagner starts withdrawing units from Bakhmut - Prigozhin

Russia's Wagner mercenary group has started withdrawing its forces from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and transferring its positions there to regular Russian troops, its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video published on Thursday.

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Evening Standard

Putin Wagner Group ‘private army’ chief says his troops withdrawing from eastern town of Bakhmut

The Wagner army is believed to have suffered 20,000 casualties in battle for Ukrainian city

France 24

A look at the Free Russia Legion, the pro-Ukrainian group that attacked Belgorod

A cross-border incursion into the Russian region of Belgorod on Monday put the Free Russia Legion under the spotlight, prompting questions about this mysterious paramilitary unit of anti-Putin Russians.

The Guardian - UK

Wagner chief warns of revolution and says 20,000 fighters killed in Bakhmut

Yevgeny Prigozhin says children of Russian elite ‘shook their arses’ in sun while sons of poor returned in coffins

Al Jazeera

Ukraine and Russia trade places in battle for Bakhmut

Ukraine now threatens encirclement of ruined eastern city after Russia claims victory.

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Russian private army Wagner Group has lost 20,000 troops in battle for Bakhmut, says leader

Yevgeny Prigozhin said about 20 per cent of the 50,000 Russian prisoners recruited to fight in the 15-month war died in the eastern Ukrainian city

The Independent UK

Russia says it shot down drones in border region after raid from Ukraine territory

A Russian official says Moscow's forces have shot down “a large number” of drones in Russia’s southern Belgorod region

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Zelenskyy tries and fails to get support from the global South at the G-7 summit

Bakhmut, the midsize Ukrainian city that used to have a population of 80,000, is now reportedly in Russian hands after a bloody nine-month military operation that turned the area into a wasteland. But regardless of who controls Bakhmut, the war will go on for the foreseeable future — the U.S.…

Evening Standard

Volodymyr Zelensky visits frontline in Donetsk to award Ukrainian soldiers medals

Volodymyr Zelensky has visited troops on the frontline in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk to award medals to soldiers.

Reuters

Jester or rebel? Mercenary Prigozhin lays bare the strains of Putin's war

Yevgeny Prigozhin on Saturday delivered Vladimir Putin one of the few battlefield victories of the president's 15-month war in Ukraine.

Reuters

Ukraine says fighting decreases in Bakhmut, shelling continues around it

Ukraine said on Tuesday fighting had decreased in Bakhmut but shelling continued in the area around it, with its troops keeping a small foothold on the city's edge and Russian forces clearing areas they hold.

The Independent UK

Who are the Wagner Group and why are they so involved in Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin has leant on military contractors to claim victories in Ukraine but their leader’s frank dispatches have increasingly rattled the Moscow establishment

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