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The Latest Breaking News from Crimea

Ukraine hits bridge in blow to Russian supply route

Missiles have struck one of the bridges linking the Crimea Peninsula with the mainland, cutting one of Russia's main supply routes.

The New Daily

Ukrainian strike hits Crimea bridge

MOSCOW: A Ukrainian strike damaged a bridge that connects southern Ukraine to the annexed Crimean peninsula, a Russian official said on Thursday, as tensions again rose over a Moscow-held nuclear power plant.

Bangkok Post

Ukraine missiles damage bridge to Crimea: Russian officials

The Chonhar road bridge is damaged but there are no casualties, Russian-appointed officials in Kherson and Crimea say.

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Russia-backed officials say explosion damages bridge linking Ukraine's mainland to Crimea

Russia-backed officials say an explosion damaged a bridge that is one of the few links between Crimea and Ukraine's mainland

The Independent UK

UK donor conference on Ukraine reconstruction closes with €60 billion in pledges

An international conference on the funding of Ukraine’s reconstruction drew to a close in London, with foreign donors pledging €60 billion in new financial support, UK Foreign Minister James Cleverley said at its closing session. Earlier on Thursday, Ukrainian forces carried out a missile strike on the Chonhar bridge connecting…

France 24

Ukraine missile ‘hits’ bridge between Russia-held Kherson and Crimea

A Ukrainian missile strike hit the bridge connecting Russian-held parts of the southern Kherson region with the annexed Crimea peninsula, officials said on Thursday.

Evening Standard

UN report says Russian armed forces have used 91 children as human shields – as it happened

UN’s secretary general accuses Russia of killing 136 children in Ukraine in 2022, adding its armed forces to a global list of offenders

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Ukrainian forces gaining ground in the south east

Ukrainian forces are gaining ground towards Melitopol and Berdiansk in the south east of the country, military sources said on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

Russia threatens Ukraine’s ‘decision-making centres’ if Kyiv uses western arms in Crimea

Use of US- and UK-supplied missiles would mark west’s ‘full involvement’, Russian defence minister says

The Guardian - UK

Can ChatGPT Explain Geopolitics?

We asked the latest generative AI system to analyze Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea. Here’s how it fared against a college student.

Foreign Policy

Kakhovka dam blast threatens water supply in Crimea, UK warns

The collapse of the Kakhovka Dam has severely disrupted the water supply in southern Kherson Oblast and northern Crimea, British defence chiefs said.

Evening Standard

Bursting of the dam: Ukraine marches on

It's little mystery who blew up the Kakhovka dam

Salon

Dutch Supreme Court orders museum artifacts borrowed from Crimea returned to Ukraine

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has ordered that a Dutch museum’s trove of historical treasures from Crimea be sent to Ukraine

The Independent UK

Is the Kakhovka dam breach a hard blow to the Ukrainian counteroffensive?

The destruction on Tuesday of the Kakhovka dam, near the town of Kherson, has been seen by some as strategic blow to Ukrainian counteroffensive plans that have been in the works for months. But crossing the Dnipro River is not the only way Ukraine can regain territories occupied by Russia.

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The Independent UK

Russia says top UN court should dismiss Ukraine's case over Crimea and terrorism funding

Russia is urging judges at the United Nations’ highest court to throw out a case brought by Ukraine against Moscow focussed on the 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and the arming of rebels in eastern Ukraine in the years before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022

Al Jazeera

Ukraine says Nova Kakhovka dam blast will not stop military plans

Ukrainian president calls the destruction of the Kakhovka dam an act of ‘mass environmental destruction’ by Russia.

The Conversation

Kakhovka dam breach: 3 essential reads on what it means for Ukraine's infrastructure, beleaguered nuclear plant and future war plans

A dam that supplies drinking water to thousands of Ukrainians as well as cooling water for reactors at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station was ruptured on June 6, 2023.

The Conversation

Ukraine war: what we know about the Nova Kakhovka dam and who gains from its destruction

The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam came just as Ukraine’s much-anticipated counter-offensive seemed poised to begin.

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The Guardian - UK

A visual guide to the collapse of Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam

Ukraine accuses Russia of blowing up Dnipro River dam, which has largely been swept away

France 24

Nova Kakhovka dam breach in Ukraine: What we know and why it matters

The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine has sent a torrent of water gushing through the breached facility, creating a new humanitarian disaster at the heart of the war zone and stoking fears of a nuclear escalation.

Reuters

Kremlin says Ukraine sabotaged dam to cut Crimea's water, distract from own failure

The Kremlin on Tuesday accused Kyiv of sabotaging the Kakhovka hydro-electric dam in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine to cut off a key source of water for Crimea and distract attention from a "faltering" counter-offensive against Russian forces.

Reuters

Canal irrigating Crimea getting 'drastically less' water after Ukraine dam blast, says Kremlin

A gaping hole punched in Ukraine's Nova Kakhovka dam that unleashed a wall of floodwater means that the canal which has traditionally met most of Crimea's water needs is receiving drastically less water, the Kremlin warned on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Ukraine to open hearings in case against Russia at top UN court

Hearings are opening at the United Nations’ highest court in a case brought by Ukraine against Russia linked to Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and arming of rebels in eastern Ukraine in the years before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022

The Guardian - AU

Nova Kakhovka dam: everything you need to know about Ukraine’s strategically important reservoir

Ukraine has accused Russia of blowing up the huge dam which provides water to Crimea and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Reuters

Russia says shoots down Ukraine-launched drones over Crimea, Kursk

Russia said on Sunday it intercepted nine drones over the Crimean Peninsula and one over the small town of Sudzha in the southern region of Kursk, in what have been nearly daily attacks inside the country or on Moscow-held territories.

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