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The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

Russian forces ‘preparing new offensive’ – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

British aid worker was ‘tortured to death’, claims human rights group

Paul Urey, 45, died in captivity last Sunday claim pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk region of Ukraine and human rights campaigner Vladimir Osechkin said he was "tortured to death"

Daily Mirror

Ukrainian rescue teams hunt for survivors in Vinnytsia

Rescue teams with sniffer dogs combed through debris in a central Ukrainian city on Friday looking for people still missing after Russia’s devastating missile strike a day earlier that killed at least 23

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Britain says Bakhmut likely to be Russia's next objective in Ukraine

Russian forces have been slowly advancing westwards following shelling and probing assaults towards the town of Siversk in Ukraine's Donetsk region from Lysychansk, Britain's defence ministry said on Friday.

Reuters

Ukraine Severs Ties with NKorea after Pro-Russia Separatists Recognition

Kyiv said Wednesday it was severing relations with North Korea, as Pyongyang confirmed it was formally recognizing two self-proclaimed pro-Russian republics in eastern Ukraine. North Korea's recognition of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic came after another Russian ally, Syria, made the same move last month, AFP…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Among missile craters and smouldering ruins, residents of Eastern Ukraine still refuse to leave

Some are too terrified to leave, others defiant in the face of relentless shelling. As the front lines draw closer, some Ukrainians still reject evacuation.

ABC News

Separatist official says Russian and proxy forces enter Ukraine's Siversk - TASS

Russian and proxy forces have entered the town of Siversk in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Russian state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday.

Reuters

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Brutal Battle Scenes During Defense Of Luhansk Cities

This video montage shows the intense fighting that took place in the now seized Ukrainian cities of Rubizhne and Sievierodonetsk.

Zenger

Ukraine: Heavy Russian shelling kills 5 civilians, wounds 18

The office of Ukraine’s president says renewed Russian artillery barrages killed at least five civilians and wounded another 18 in the past day

The Independent UK

Last maternity clinic in Ukraine-controlled Donbas a lifeline as war closes in

In the last specialist maternity ward still under Ukrainian control in the eastern Donbas region, the windows are packed with sandbags. Rooms used for births at the Perinatal Centre in the city of Pokrovsk follow the two-wall rule, which says the safest parts of a building are separated from the…

Reuters

Bakhmut bombarded in wake of Ukraine attack on Russian air defences

Heavy shelling thought to be reprisal for Ukraine attack or preamble to renewed offensive on Donetsk cities

The Guardian - UK

Guardsmen Destroy Russian Reconnaissance Group In Donetsk

A graphic video shows the moment Ukrainian Guardsmen destroy a Russian reconnaissance group in Donetsk Oblast.

Zenger

Donetsk town of Chasiv Yar reels from deadly Russian rocket strike

Residents say they have nowhere to go nor the means to leave as frontline encroaches on civilians

The Guardian - UK

$Ukraine war: Russia's G20 walkout heightens tensions at fractious summit as China's rise continues$

Ukraine war: Russia's G20 walkout heightens tensions at fractious summit as China's rise continues

While G20 foreign ministers were meeting in Bali, Indonesia, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, threatened further escalation in his war against Ukraine, announcing to the world that “by and large, we have not started anything in earnest yet”. What he meant became quickly clear when a missile attack hit an…

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Evening Standard

Ukraine: Massive blast at Russian weapons depot ‘targeted by US-supplied rocket system’

Video on social media showed a massive explosion at the ammunition depot in Russian-held Nova Kakhovka

Reuters

Death toll from collapsed Donbas apartment block rises to 35 -emergency services

The death toll under a collapsed apartment block in the Donetsk region town of Chasiv Yar climbed to 35 on Tuesday, with rescue work still not over four days after the building was hit by Russian rocket fire, emergency services said.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine Reports Striking Russian Ammunition Depot in South

The Ukrainian military on Tuesday reported destroying a Russian ammunition depot in southern Ukraine, resulting in a massive explosion captured on social media, while authorities said the death toll from a weekend Russian strike in the country's east grew to 41. An overnight rocket strike targeted the depot in Russian-held…

The Independent UK

Ukrainian rocket strike targets Russian ammunition depot

A Russian ammunition depot was apparently targeted by Ukrainian forces overnight, resulting in a massive blast captured on social media

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Axios

80% of Donetsk residents have fled as Chasiv Yar strike death toll hits 34, local leader says

A child is among the dead following the strike on the Donetsk region town, as rescue operations continue.

Axios

80% of Donetsk residents have fled Ukrainian region as war enters 139th day, local leader says

Death toll from strike on Donetsk town of Chasiv Yar has risen to 34, local official says, as intense battles rage across region.

The Guardian - AU

Russia ‘doesn’t have the courage’ to admit defeat, says Zelenskiy – as it happened

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France 24

Ukraine says five fighters rescued from Kherson in 'special operation'

Ukrainian miltiary intelligence said Tuesday that its troops had rescued five Ukrainians in a special operation in the southern Kherson region, which is occupied by pro-Russia forces. The rescue came as Ukraine said it struck Russian military units and an ammunitions depot in Kherson, where Moscow-backed authorities claimed seven people…

The Guardian - UK

Chasiv Yar death toll rises to 34 in one of Russia’s deadliest attacks so far

Rescue teams continue to retrieve bodies from rubble of five-storey apartment block, with victim aged nine among latest confirmed dead

Al Jazeera

Ukraine latest updates: UN says civilian death toll tops 5,000

Ukraine news from July 12: UN human rights office says 5,024 people killed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began.

Evening Standard

Ukraine calls for more weapons to punish Russia for citizenship decree

Ukraine is calling on the West for new tough sanctions on Russia and to step up its supplies of heavy weaponry to punish Moscow for its citizenship decree.

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