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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

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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.

Reuters

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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

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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…

The Conversation

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…

France 24

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

Daily Mirror

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

Evening Standard

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.

WEKU

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 Guardian - 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

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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.

Asharq Al-Awsat

In Russia-Ukraine War, More Disastrous Path Could Lie Ahead

For Russia, it's been a year of bold charges and bombardments, humiliating retreats and grinding sieges. Ukraine has countered with fierce resistance, surprising counteroffensives and unexpected hit-and-run strikes. Now, on the anniversary of Russia's invasion that has killed tens of thousands and reduced cities to ruins, both sides are preparing…

France 24

Artillery war in deadlock on east Ukraine's frozen front lines

Artillery battles currently make up the vast majority of fighting in the eastern Donbas region, as Ukrainian soldiers await deliveries of the ammunition and high-tech weaponry promised by the West. Amid freezing temperatures, the lack of materials is drawing out the war, the soldiers tell FRANCE 24's special correspondents Catherine…

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The Independent UK

In Russia-Ukraine war, more disastrous path could lie ahead

One year after President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine both countries are preparing for offensives that could set the stage for a potentially even more disastrous phase of the war

The Independent UK

Ukraine-Russia news – live: Biden makes surprise visit to Kyiv ahead of war anniversary

It comes as Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitshcko issues an ominous nuclear weapons warning for ‘everyone on the planet’

The Guardian - AU

Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Kyiv ‘unprecedented in modern times’, says US – as it happened

First time a US president visited a ‘country at war where US military does not control critical infrastructure’, says national security adviser

ABC News

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia hit by 'extraordinarily significant' losses in east

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gives an update on the areas experiencing the heaviest fighting, while Russia warns France that Moscow remembers the fate of Napoleon Bonaparte as it accuses the French president of duplicitous diplomacy.

Reuters

Ukraine's Zelenskiy: Russia hit by "extraordinarily significant" losses in east

Ukraine's military is inflicting "extraordinarily significant" losses on Russian forces near the town of Vuhledar in the eastern Donbas region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday.

France 24

'We have to take more risks': Ukrainian forces hold the line as battle for Donbas heats up

Nearly a year after the invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops are trying to seize the moment by overwhelming Ukrainian defences before the deployment of promised new weapons from Western nations. Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold the line with outdated equipment against the 320,000 Russian soldiers currently amassed in the…

Al Jazeera

A year of Russia’s war in Ukraine: Your simple guide

Ukraine says a renewed Russian offensive is under way following 12 months of bloodshed.

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