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The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Moscow continues to insist that it wants Kyiv to withdraw its forces from Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, which Ukraine has been fiercely defending since 2014. What is there, and why is Moscow keen to take control of the entire area so much?

Euronews

Russia says Ukrainian soldiers executed prisoners of war in Donbas region

A video has circulated on social media reportedly showing Ukrainian soldiers shooting at least 12 men

The Guardian - UK

Key Donetsk town liberated and under full Ukrainian control, Zelensky says

Video appears to show Ukrainian soldiers raising national flag at entrance to town

The Independent UK

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Russia ‘may not have sufficient reserves or morale’ to withstand further Ukraine assault

British defence intelligence analysts warn substantial loss of territory for Vladimir Putin in the Donbas would ‘unambiguously undermine’ his strategy for the conflict

Evening Standard

The hospital train helping Ukraine’s sick and wounded

Chronically ill and injured patients are evacuated from the embattled east to safer hospitals in the west.

Al Jazeera

Six months of war in Ukraine: ‘The enemy learned fast’

There is stalemate across the front line as Moscow and Kyiv prepare for the conflict to drag on into winter

Financial Times

Ukrainian Troops Obliterate Three Russian BMPs And 25 Soldiers In The Donbas

The video shows at least one of the BMPs and some Russian soldiers being targeted by Ukrainian artillery fire.

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Putin’s private army ‘making tactical advances in the Donbas’

Vladimir Putin’s private army has “likely suceeded in making tactical advances in the Donbas”, according to British defence chiefs.

Evening Standard

The Ukrainian fighters standing in Russia’s way on eastern front

Barely a kilometre from Russian positions defending the captured eastern city of Izium, Ukrainian and foreign fighters hunker in a dank basement. Artillery rains down on them most nights, shaking loose the plaster and filling the air with dust.

Reuters

‘They have come to destroy us’: Ukrainians on the frontline in Donbas

Many fighters are from the Donbas and say it is wrong to assume pro-Russian views predominate in the region

The Guardian - UK

Sustainability of Russian attacks ‘challenging’ – Western officials

One official said it remained ‘highly uncertain’ whether Russia would secure the limits of Donetsk Oblast this year.

The Independent UK

US Long-range Rocket Systems Arrive in Ukraine

Ukraine said on Thursday it had received US supplies of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), a powerful long-range weapon system that Kyiv hopes can help turn the tide on Russia's invasion. Moscow's forces are advancing in Ukraine's east in a bid to capture the industrial heartland known as the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian forces seize frontline Donbas village: Ukrainian official

Head of the Severodonetsk district military administration says Toshkivka is now ‘controlled entirely by the Russians’.

Al Jazeera

Putin’s troops ‘forced to undertake dangerous river crossings’ as Ukrainian forces blow up bridges, says UK

Vladimir Putin’s offensive in Ukraine is being slowed by Ukrainian forces blowing up bridges as they withdraw forcing his troops to undertake dangerous river crossing, British defence chiefs said on Monday.

Evening Standard

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Reuters

Amid fierce fighting, Russian forces cut last Sievierodonetsk escape route

Russian forces tightened their grip on the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday, a Ukrainian official said, cutting off the last routes for evacuating citizens in a scene that echoed last month's siege of the port of Mariupol.

The Independent UK

Smashed buildings in Mariupol produce 'caravan of death'

The human cost of the war in Ukraine mounted as workers pulled up to 100 bodies from each smashed building in the devastated city of Mariupol

Los Angeles Times

Horses, dogs, emus, bees: A farm in Ukraine becomes a wartime sanctuary (for humans, too)

ZELENYI HAI, Ukraine — There once was a farmer with 10 sheep, a beekeeper with 41 hives (and a turtle) and a cook with 62 pheasants and peacocks. And they all lived peacefully in the fields and meadows of a place called the Donbas.

Reuters

Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters 100th day

Russia's invasion of Ukraine entered its 100th day on Friday with no end in sight to the fighting that has killed thousands, uprooted millions and reduced cities to rubble.

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The Guardian - UK

French journalist killed by shrapnel from Russian shell in eastern Ukraine

Journalist was in an evacuation vehicle in Sievierodonetsk, the largest city in the Donbas still held by Ukrainian forces

The National (Scotland)

Russians meet fierce resistance as fighting intensifies across Donbas

RUSSIAN and Ukrainian troops engaged in close-quarter combat in an eastern Ukraine city yesterday as Moscow’s soldiers, supported by intense…

Evening Standard

Russian forces intensify assault in Luhansk amid Putin’s push to seize Donbas

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has described the situation in the Donbas as ‘indescribably difficult’

Reuters

Russia pummels eastern towns in bid to encircle Ukraine forces

Russian forces stepped up their assault on the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Saturday after claiming to have captured the nearby rail hub of Lyman, as Kyiv intensified its calls for longer-range weaponry from the West to help it fight back in the Donbas region.

The Independent UK

After 3 months, Russia still bogged down in Ukraine war

When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, it had hoped to overtake the country in a blitz lasting only days or a few weeks

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian Offensive Turns to Key Donbas City, Heavy Shelling

Ukrainians were digging in to defend the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk as it endured heavy bombardment from Russian forces trying to take the industrial area known as the Donbas. In Tokyo on Monday, President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida joined in condemning Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Russia claims complete control over Mariupol after ‘capturing Azovstal steel plant’

Victory in port city a symbolic boost to Vladimir Putin in faltering war on Ukraine

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