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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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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.

Los Angeles Times

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.

Reuters

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

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

Al Jazeera

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.

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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.

Bangkok Post

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia ‘takes control of Azovstal steel plant’; gas supply to Finland to be cut – as it happened

Plant was last part of Mariupol in Ukrainian hands; Gazprom will suspend gas sales to Finland from Saturday. This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 86 of the invasion

Intense fighting reported around Severodonetsk in the Donbas; Russia plans to change law to scrap age limit for soldiers

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine President Zelensky says Donbas has been 'completely destroyed'

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to Ukraine's leader on Thursday

Wales Online

Ukraine latest: Ukraine says Donbas region completely destroyed, US supports Nordic push to join NATO

Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Russian forces of attempting to kill as many Ukrainians and do as much damage as possible, repeating his charge that Russia was carrying out a genocide.

ABC News

‘It is hell there’: Ukraine’s Donbas ‘completely destroyed’ by relentless bombardment, Zelensky says

President accuses Moscow of carrying out ‘senseless bombardment’ in east of country

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Reuters

Siege ends at Ukraine's Mariupol steelworks, Russia seeks control of Donbas

The last Ukrainian forces holed up in Mariupol's smashed Azovstal steelworks surrendered on Friday, Russia's defense ministry said, ending the most destructive siege of the war as Moscow fought to cement control over the Donbas region.

Reuters

Ukraine's Zelenskiy says Donbas region has been completely destroyed

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday said Russian forces had "completely destroyed" the industrial Donbas region and accused Moscow of carrying out senseless bombardments as it intensified its offensive.

Axios

On the front lines in Donbas: One Ukrainian soldier's story

"I know that hell exists, and it is here."

The Independent UK

Putin unleashes ‘Terminator’ tanks in Ukraine’s Donbas amid Russian military setbacks

Terminators can engage multiple targets at once and on different heights

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Reuters

G7 pledges billions for Ukraine 'to get through this'

The Group of Seven agreed on Thursday to provide Ukraine with $18.4 billion to pay its bills, funds that Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said would speed up Kyiv's victory over Russia and which were just as important as "the weapons you provide".

Zenger

VIDEO: War In Ukraine: Russia Blitzes Ukrainian Targets With Deadly Orlan 10 Drones

This is the moment a Russian ‘Orlan-10’ drone takes to the sky and drops bombs on a target in the Donbas region.

WEKU

A member of Ukraine's parliament now trains a recon and sabotage unit to fight Russia

Col. Roman Kostenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker, has built a reconnaissance and sabotage team to target Russian forces. His ultimate goal: free his family village from Russian control.

Daily Mirror

Desperate Vladimir Putin finally deploys 'Terminator tanks' in Ukraine for first time

The 'Terminator tanks' were first brought within just a few miles of the Ukrainian border only days before the invasion began but it has taken until now for them to be deployed

Daily Mirror

Moment terrifying Russian ‘Orlan-10’ drone takes to the sky and drops bombs on Donbas

The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) claims the Orlan-10 drone is used to help civilians being used as human shields - while also carrying out reconnaissance missions to find Ukrainian weapons depots to target

Reuters

Putin takes Mariupol, but wider Donbas victory slipping from reach

Even as the Kremlin prepares to take full control of the ruins of Mariupol city, it faces the growing prospect of defeat in its bid to conquer all of Ukraine's eastern Donbas because its badly mauled forces lack the manpower for significant advances.

ABC News

Vladimir Putin's war has not gone to plan. Here are Russia's three biggest failures in Ukraine so far

From the battle for Snake Island to a spate of military general deaths and the devastating loss of a battalion crossing a river, Russia's mistakes on the battlefield have left Vladimir Putin in an embarrassing position.

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