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Russians pound frontline positions in Bakhmut, Ukraine military says

Russian forces pounded the city of Bakhmut, the months-old focal point of their attempts to capture the eastern Ukrainian industrial region of Donbas, and the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary force said Ukrainian troops were pouring in ahead of an "inevitable" counter-offensive.

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'Donbass Devushka': American mouthpiece for Russian propaganda on Ukraine

“Donbass Devushka” is a prominent social media account implicated in the recent leak of classified documents on the Ukraine war. The pro-Kremlin mouthpiece, which claims to be run by a Russian woman in the occupied city of Luhansk, is in fact run by a pro-Russian former US military officer.

France 24

Iron People: Ukraine’s railway network in a time of war – photo essay

Documenting the drivers, railway workers and passengers on Europe’s third largest rail network during an extraordinary year in which Ukraine defied Russia’s plan to conquer the country

The Guardian - UK

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'If you stay, you will die': How one front-line volunteer is saving lives in Ukraine’s Donbas

Kuba Stasiak, a young volunteer from Poland, has helped evacuate an estimated 200 Ukrainian civilians from Bakhmut and other besieged cities in Ukraine. But volunteers like him face psychological hurdles as well as practical ones: How do you convince someone it is time to leave everything behind?

France 24

Ukraine’s Top Soldier Says Situation in Embattled Bakhmut Is Stabilizing

Ukrainian forces have managed to blunt Russia's offensive in and around the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut, where the situation is stabilizing, commander in chief General Valery Zaluzhniy said on Saturday. Separately, Britain's defense ministry said the months-long Russian assault on the city had stalled, mainly as a result of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Putin says Moscow has deal with Belarus to station nuclear weapons there

Russia has struck a deal with neighbouring Belarus to station tactical nuclear weapons on its territory, Tass news agency quoted President Vladimir Putin as saying on Saturday.

Reuters

Russians mount two-pronged attack as Ukraine claims Putin’s army is running out of steam

Russian forces are attacking northern and southern stretches of the front in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, even as Kyiv says Moscow's assault is

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Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Russia attacks along Ukraine front

Russian forces attacked northern and southern stretches of the front in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region on Friday, even as Kyiv said Moscow's assault was flagging near the city of Bakhmut.

Reuters

Russian forces make ‘creeping gains’ in Donbas as Putin warned ‘no time limit’ on war crime arrest warrant

Russian forces are making “creeping gains" in some Ukrainian-held areas of Donbas, British Defence Chiefs said on Monday, as a war crimes prosecutor warned there would be no time limit on an international arrest warrant issued for Vladimir Putin.

Evening Standard

Vladimir Putin pays surprise visit to occupied Mariupol in Ukraine

Russian president makes first trip to Donbas region since invasion, in show of defiance after ICC arrest warrant

The Guardian - UK

Vladimir Putin makes surprise visit to Russian-occupied Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to the port of Mariupol, in his first trip to the Donbas region since the war began.

The New Daily

Putin Makes Surprise Trip to Mariupol

President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to Mariupol, Russian state media reported on Sunday, in what would be the Kremlin leader's first trip to the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine's Donbas region since the start of the war. The visit came after Putin travelled to Crimea on Saturday in an…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine blasts Putin for coming to ‘admire the ruins’ of Mariupol

President Vladimir Putin has made a surprise trip to war-ravaged Mariupol, the Kremlin said Sunday, in what marks his first trip to the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine’s Donbas region since the start of the war. Ukraine promptly slammed the visit, describing the Russian leader as "the murderer of thousands of…

France 24

Putin visits Russian-occupied Mariupol day after ICC issues arrest warrant

A day after being accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court, President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol, scene of some of the worst devastation of his year-old invasion.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Moscow Keeps up Pressure in East Ukraine, Putin Says Russia’s Survival at Stake

Russian troops keep pushing forward in waves along the frontline in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian soldiers said on Tuesday, as President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed his view that Russia's very existence as a state was at stake in the war. In the eastern Donbas region, Russia and Ukraine are locked in the…

The Independent UK

Death of nationalist Ukrainian commander ‘Da Vinci’ gives Russia a propaganda win

Dmytro Kotsyubaylo was a leader of one of the most controversial armed groups in the country, and was hailed as a hero by Volodymyr Zelensky, writes Kim Sengupta. He is the latest high-profile casualty in the fierce fighting around the eastern city of Bakhmut

The Conversation

Ukraine war: a fight to the death in Bakhmut with both sides bogged in the spring thaw

With winter coming to a close in Ukraine, Russia is making a series of advances in the eastern Donbas region, with a primary aim of capturing the city of Bakhmut. While the city itself has some (limited) strategic significance as a regional transport hub, neither its symbolic nor material value…

France 24

Ukraine, Russia exchange scores of POWs as UN chief heads to Kyiv

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres was on his way to Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday as Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners of war. Zelensky said earlier in the day that the Ukrainian military would be sending reinforcements to the besieged city of Bakhmut, belying earlier reports…

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Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin orders textbooks be rewritten to brainwash kids into worshipping invaders

The schoolbooks are being altered to include a positive outlook on the full-scale invasion, avoiding the mention of Russia's humiliating battlefield performances, focusing instead on the eastern region of Donbas

Evening Standard

Vladimir Putin’s forces capturing Bakhmut will not ‘change the tide of this fight,’ says US Defence Secretary

Vladimir Putin’s troops are said to have almost encircled the town in the Donetsk province in the eastern Donbas region

WEKU

In the Donbas, Russia's vast numbers of troops weigh heavily on Ukraine's defenders

Russia and Ukraine are believed to have suffered equally horrific losses in the war. But when it comes to troop strength, the math is on Russia's side. Its population is four times Ukraine's.

The Guardian - UK

For years, Putin didn’t invade Ukraine. What made him finally snap in 2022?

This war is Russia’s fault. But European nations rebuffing Russia during the noughties did not help, says Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

The Independent UK

One year of war in Ukraine: The startling images that show the brutality of Russia’s invasion

Ukraine – a year of war: The Independent presents a selection of the most striking images of the conflict

The Guardian - UK

Russian forces step up attacks in Ukraine’s east as one-year mark looms

Zelenskiy says Ukraine ‘will prevail’ as general staff reports 90 assaults in 24 hours in east and north-east

WEKU

She's Ukrainian-American. Her relatives are in Russia. Family group texts are awkward

For people who have family members on different sides of the war in Ukraine, it's been a long year of disagreeing, disbelieving and biting tongues.

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