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The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Ukraine girds for renewed Russian offensive on eastern front

Ukraine braced for a climactic battle for control over the besieged country’s industrial east as Russian forces withdrew from the shattered outskirts of Kyiv to regroup

The Independent UK

Western official says Russia will need time to pivot forces to east Ukraine

Russia will struggle to rapidly redeploy the forces it has withdrawn from the area around Ukrainian capital Kyiv to the Donbas region in the east as units need reconstituting and re-equipping, a Western official said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Russia is preparing a 'major' new offensive in eastern Ukraine, NATO chief warns

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance must bed in 'for the long haul' as Vladimir Putin prepares to regroup Russian troops in an assault on the eastern Donbas region

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After the horrors of Bucha, Ukrainians have changed the way we look at this war

The Russian military are now circling the Donbas. I’m terrified for people there who were loyal to Ukraine for the past eight years, says Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk

The Guardian - UK

Russia's failure to take down Kyiv was a defeat for the ages

Kyiv was a Russian defeat for the ages

The Independent UK

Russian troops behind Bucha massacre 'could be sent to Ukraine battle hotspots'

Sources said they believe Russia wants the men to be killed so there will be no living witnesses to the Bucha killings. Lt Colonel Azatbek Omurbekov leads the 64th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade

Daily Mirror

NATO says Russia regrouping to try to take Ukraine's Donbas

Russia is likely to launch a new offensive in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region in the next few weeks, NATO Secretary-General Jensen Stolen said on Tuesday, adding that allies had time to help prepare the Ukrainian military.

Reuters

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Live updates | Ukraine reports Russian military regrouping

Ukraine’s General Staff reports Tuesday morning that Russia is regrouping its troops and preparing for an offensive in Donbas

The Independent UK

Routing of Russian forces from Kyiv area will be hard to repeat in eastern Ukraine

Analysis: while Ukrainian troops have strong defensive positions in Donbas they lack the capability to force out the invaders

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine war: Can Russia’s promise of fewer attacks be trusted?

Analysts say Russia’s war goals are unchanged but its revised strategy may be the result of unexpected challenges.

Al Jazeera

UK says Russian forces continue to refocus their offensive into the Donbas region

Russian forces continue to consolidate and reorganise as they refocus their offensive into the Donbas region in the east of Ukraine, British military intelligence said on Monday.

Reuters

Conscripts sent to fight by pro-Russia Donbas get little training, old rifles, poor supplies - sources

Military conscripts in the Russian-backed Donbas region have been sent into front-line combat against Ukrainian troops with no training, little food and water, and inadequate weapons, six people in the separatist province told Reuters.

Reuters

Ukraine, US and other countries condemn Russia for alleged civilian executions

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces braced for an intensified Russian onslaught against the eastern Donbas region Sunday as officials from Ukraine, the U.S. and other countries condemned Moscow over allegations of civilian executions.

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine condemns Russia for alleged civilian executions, braces for onslaught in the east

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces braced for an intensified Russian onslaught against the eastern Donbas region Sunday as Russian missiles struck the strategic port of Odesa on the Black Sea and Ukrainian officials condemned Moscow over allegations of civilian executions.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Says Peace Talks Not Ready for Leaders’ Meeting, Says Chief Negotiator

Russia said on Sunday that peace talks with Ukraine had not progressed enough for a leaders' meeting and that Moscow's position on the status of Crimea and Donbas remained unchanged. "The draft agreement is not ready for submission to a meeting at the top," Russian chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said…

Reuters

Russia says peace talks not ready for leaders' meeting - chief negotiator

Russia said on Sunday that peace talks had not progressed enough for a leaders' meeting and that Moscow's position on the status of Crimea and Donbas remained unchanged.

The Guardian - AU

‘They were all shot’: Russia accused of war crimes as Bucha reveals horror of invasion

Ukrainian forces liberating the town of Bucha near Kyiv find streets littered with corpses of civilians and burned-out Russian tanks

The Guardian - AU

Zelenskiy vows to investigate and prosecute all Russian ‘crimes’ in Ukraine – as it happened

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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy warns of mines after Russians pull back from Kyiv, move deeper east

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russian troops were seeding northern areas of Ukraine with land mines as Moscow increasingly focused its offensive thrust on the eastern Donbas region — home of two self-proclaimed republics loyal to Russia.

Los Angeles Times

Zelenskyy warns of mines in wake of Russian retreat in northern Ukraine

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russian troops were seeding northern areas of Ukraine with mines as Moscow increasingly focused its offensive thrust on the eastern Donbas region — home of two self-proclaimed republics loyal to Russia.

Daily Mirror

Another of Putin's top Russian colonels killed as '70 more funerals expected'

Lt Col Vitaly Slabtsov, 43, was reportedly killed during a special operation in Donbas, Ukraine in what is another major blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin

Crikey

Red Cross convoy heads again for Mariupol

As Russia appears to be readying new attacks in Ukraine’s southeast, a Red Cross convoy will again try to evacuate civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol.

The Guardian - AU

Peace proposals ‘verbally’ accepted by Moscow, except on Crimea, says Ukraine – as it happened

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Reuters

U.S. will work with allies to transfer Soviet-made tanks to Ukraine -NY Times

The United States will work with allies to transfer Soviet-made tanks to Ukraine to bolster its defenses in the Donbas region, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing a U.S. official.

Reuters

Erdogan says he will urge Putin to take steps on Donbas, Crimea with Zelenskiy

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he will tell his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a phone call later that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy need to take a step to address issues over Ukraine's Donbas region and Crimea.

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