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The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Brave Ukrainians refusing Putin's demand for ceasefire despite mounting attacks

President Volodymyr Zelensky has ruled out backing down to tyrant Vladimir Putin's demands for a ceasefire in spite of a heightened assault on the eastern Donbas region

Daily Mirror

Ukraine demands complete ‘restoration of territory’ as Russian airstrikes hit the Donbas

Speaking on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky renewed a plea for stronger economic sanctions against Moscow

Evening Standard

Ukraine says it’s holding off Russia’s intensified thrust in the east

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces were deterring Russia’s intensified offensive in the east, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday, even as he labeled the grinding military panorama across the country as “very hard.”

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Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 88 of the invasion

Russian airstrikes hit Mykolaiv and Donbas regions; only Ukraine can decide its future, says Polish president

The Guardian - UK

'Vladimir Putin's rockets beheaded my son - I fell to my knees and screamed'

In recent weeks Russia has stepped up its efforts to the seize the Donbas region in the east of Ukraine, as apart of this, they have upped their relentless air strikes on towns and cities

Daily Mirror

Ukraine repells ‘four attacks’ in Donbas to block Russian from securing Severodonetsk

Russian forces reportedly deployed an armoured fighting vehicle known as the Terminator tank to advance on Severodontesk in eastern Ukraine

Evening Standard

Russia pounds Ukraine's Donbas and Mykolaiv regions

Russia pounded Ukrainian forces with airstrikes and artillery in the east and the south, targeting command centres, troops, and ammunition depots, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday.

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Russia deploys only ‘Terminator’ tank unit to ramp up Donbas offensive, says UK

Despite the deployment of the unit, the MoD said there are only a maximum of ten tanks available in the Central Grouping of Forces

Evening Standard

Russia intensifies push into Donbas as Polish president visits Kyiv

Only Ukraine has the right to decide its future, Polish President Andrzej Duda told lawmakers in Kyiv on Sunday, becoming the first foreign leader to give an in-person speech to the Ukrainian parliament since the Russian invasion. President Volodymyr Zelensky said late Saturday that the situation in Donbas had become…

France 24

Ukraine rejects concessions as Russians attack in east and south

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow as Russia stepped up its attack in the eastern and southern parts of the country, pounding the Donbas and Mykolaiv regions with air strikes and artillery fire.

Reuters

Russia cuts off gas to Finland amid wider push into Ukraine’s east

BUCHA, Ukraine — Russian troops continued their offensive into the Donbas region on Saturday, aiming to encircle the easternmost point of Ukrainian control in what one official said would be a repeat of Moscow’s assault on the beleaguered city of Mariupol.

Los Angeles Times

Former Russian mercenary lifts lid on secretive Wagner Group

Marat Gabidullin is the first combatant from private Russian paramilitary company Wagner to break rank and talk publicly about the secretive organisation. He recounts his four years as a mercenary in eastern Ukraine and Syria in his memoir In the Same River Twice, now available in French.

Radio France Internationale

Russian Military Says it Destroys Western Arms Consignment in Ukraine

The Russian military said on Saturday it had destroyed a major consignment of Western arms in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region, west of Kyiv, using sea-launched Kalibr cruise missiles. The defense ministry said in a statement the strike took out "a large batch of weapons and military equipment delivered from the USA…

Asharq Al-Awsat

As Russia intensifies push for Donbas, Ukraine rules out ceasefire

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or concessions to Moscow on Saturday as Russia intensified an offensive in the eastern Donbas region and stopped providing gas to Finland.

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Evening Standard

‘Critical weeks’ in war for Ukraine as Vladimir Putin steps up assault in east

Attacks in Donbas intensify as Russia claims ‘complete liberation’ of Mariupol steelworks

France 24

The fall of Mariupol, far-right ideology goes mainstream, France's new government

Nearly three months after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia is finally sealing its first major victory as Ukrainian fighters surrender from Mariupol's last pocket of resistance. Long after the Azov seaport was overtaken, the Ukrainians had kept control of the Azovstal steel mill compound, pinning down an estimated twelve Russian…

Asharq Al-Awsat

West Rushes More Aid as Mariupol Teeters and Fighting Rages

The West moved to pour billions more in aid into Ukraine on Friday, as Russia shifted forces freed up by the imminent fall of the pulverized port city of Mariupol and fighting raged in the country’s industrial heartland in the east. Ukraine said its troops repelled a Russian attack in…

The Guardian - UK

Intense fighting around Severodonetsk as Zelenskiy says Donbas is ‘hell’

Russian forces thought to be trying to cut one of the main supply routes to Ukrainian defenders in the area

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Daily Mirror

UK sending hundreds more troops to Eastern Europe to counter Russian aggression

The UK is to deploy hundreds more soldiers to Estonia in June to help bolster defences in the face of Russian aggression and will also form two new headquarters in the Baltics

Los Angeles Times

Russian bombardment has turned Ukraine’s Donbas into ‘hell,’ Zelenskyy says

KYIV, Ukraine — With its grip tightened along the southern coast, Russia redoubled its assault on Ukraine’s Donbas region Friday, turning parts of the country’s eastern industrial heartland into “hell,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Reuters

U.S. Embassy welcomes plan to name Moscow square 'Defenders of Donbas'

The U.S. Embassy in Moscow said on Friday that it was surprised but not offended by a proposal to name a nearby intersection "Defenders of Donbas Square", suggesting disingenuously that it was to honour Ukrainian soldiers fighting Russian aggression.

Al Jazeera

Russia has turned Ukraine’s Donbas into ‘hell’, Zelenskyy says

Ukraine’s president says Russia’s intensifying offensive has ‘completely destroyed’ the eastern region.

Evening Standard

Russia has completely destroyed the Donbas region, says Volodymyr Zelensky

Russian forces have “completely destroyed” the Donbas region, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned.

Bangkok Post

Ukraine slams Russian campaign in Donbas 'hell', US readies $40bn in aid

KYIV: The renewed Russian offensive in Ukraine's Donbas has turned the eastern region into "hell", President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as the United States approved a gargantuan US$40-billion aid package for the country.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine’s Donbas ‘Destroyed’ as Russian Artillery and Aircraft Step up Strikes

Russian forces have bombarded areas of Ukraine's eastern Donbas from land and air, killing at least 13 civilians, Ukraine's military said on Friday, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the assaults had turned the region into "hell". As the war neared the three-month mark, the Russians were intensifying their efforts to…

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