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Ukraine's elderly bikers defy cycle of violence

Toretsk (Ukraine) (AFP) - They look incongruous, but they are everywhere across Ukraine's embattled eastern Donbas region -- elderly cyclists, trundling back and forth on battered push bikes, refusing to be fazed by the chaos around them.

AFP

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 163 of the invasion

Three grain ships leave Ukraine as Russia signals it is ready to talk about a prisoner swap with the US after Brittney Griner sentencing

The Guardian - AU

Russian ceasefire and troop pullout must precede any talks, says Ukraine

Ukraine on Wednesday dismissed comments by former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder that Russia wanted a "negotiated solution" to the war and said any dialogue would be contingent on a Russian ceasefire and withdrawal of its troops.

Reuters

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Putin’s troops moving south after ‘failing’ in Donbas region, says UK

The Ministry of Defence says Russia has failed to make “operational breakthrough” in the region

Evening Standard

Ukraine seeks to retake the south, tying down Russian forces

Even as the Russian war machine crawls across Ukraine’s east, trying to achieve the Kremlin’s goal of securing a full control over the country’s industrial heartland of the Donbas, Ukrainian forces are scaling up attacks to reclaim territory in the south

The Independent UK

Russia hits southern Ukraine port city

Oleksiy Vadatursky, founder and owner of Ukranian agriculture company Nibulon, and his wife have been killed in their home,

Crikey

Dozens dead in Ukraine prison blast as both sides trade blame

Ukraine says Russia trying to hide fact that Ukrainian prisoners of war were ‘tortured and murdered’

The Guardian - UK

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Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 156 of the invasion

Ukraine steps up campaign to retake Russian-controlled regions in south; Kyiv accuses Russia of a war crime over the deaths of more than 40 prisoners of war

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: A Ukrainian postwar recovery plan needs specifics now

While it is premature to declare Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over, with Ukrainians dying in the Donbas region every day, it is critical to lay the foundation for what a postwar Ukraine would look like.

Chicago Tribune

Russia ‘has definitively lost initiative’ in battle for Donbas

It is not thought Moscow will take the Ukrainian eastern industrial heartland in the ‘immediate future’.

The Independent UK

Russian firm Wagner made tactical advances in Donbas - UK intelligence

Russian private military firm Wagner has likely made tactical advances in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, British military intelligence said on Wednesday.

Reuters

The ‘most-hunted weapon in all of Ukraine’: How HIMARS stalled Russia’s brutal advance

The mobile artillery system has been credited with halting Russia’s advance, but can it turn the tide? Richard Hall reports.

The Independent UK

Long-range guns given to Ukraine open door to new phase of war

The war in Ukraine may be entering a new stage as long-range rocket systems supplied by the U.S. disrupt Russia’s grinding advance in the eastern Donbas region, and open the door for a possible counteroffensive.

Tribune News Service

Britain says 'inconclusive fighting' continues in Ukraine's Donbas and Kherson

Inconclusive fighting has continued in both Donbas and Kherson regions in eastern Ukraine, British military intelligence said on Monday.

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The Guardian - UK

‘It has been like hell’: life under fire in Donbas as war enters sixth month

Residents of cities in path of Russia’s push to capture entire region live in fear of missile strikes

Reuters

Canadian recently died in Ukraine, Canada government says

Canada said on Sunday a Canadian citizen died recently in Ukraine, with a media report suggesting the deceased Canadian was with two U.S. citizens who died in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.

Reuters

Two Americans recently died in Ukraine's Donbas region - CNN

Two U.S. citizens recently died in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, CNN reported on Saturday, citing a U.S. State Department spokesperson.

France 24

Russia speaks of expanding Ukraine mission despite realities on the ground

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this week that Moscow is expanding its military aims in Ukraine beyond the eastern Donbas region. But the Russian military has been experiencing difficulties on the ground, prompting many to wonder whether it is realistic for the Kremlin to expand the scope of its…

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The Independent UK

Two Americans have died in Ukraine, officials say

State Department reports deaths of two US citizens in Donbas

Evening Standard

Two US citizens killed in Donbas as ‘heavy fighting’ continues in Kherson

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said that additional Ukrainian strikes have caused further damage to the key Antonivsky Bridge

The Guardian - AU

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Russian foreign minister signals plans to annex Ukrainian territory; Ukrainian teen tells of Russian torture rooms; Kyiv and Moscow agree to restart grain exports

The Independent UK

‘A catastrophe for the world’: Ukraine’s farmers, on the frontline of global hunger, try to save harvest

The world relies on Ukraine for food, but Russia’s invasion means millions could go hungry despite any deal allowing grain to be exported. Bel Trew talks to farmers in Kharkiv, Donbas, Dnipro and Kyiv

AFP

Ukraine grain deal set for signing as Russia batters Donbas

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Kyiv and Moscow are set to sign a deal Friday in Istanbul to unblock grain exports and relieve a global food crisis, even as Russian forces launch deadly artillery barrages over east Ukraine.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trudy Rubin: We can win if West helps us close our skies to Russian attack, Ukraine defense minister says

KYIV, Ukraine — The day before I interviewed Ukraine’s defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, Russian missiles slammed into a business district in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, far from the front line or any military target.

AFP

Five months on, anger and despair prevail in Donbas

Kramatorsk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Fatigue, despair and anger are prevalent in eastern Ukraine after five months of what volunteer humanitarian aid worker Oleksiy Yukov calls "a war without mercy that has gone crazy".

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