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The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

Fall of Severodonetsk is Russia’s biggest victory since Mariupol

Fall of city after weeks of street fighting transforms the battlefield in the east of Ukraine to Moscow’s advantage.

Al Jazeera

Russia pushes to block off city of Lysychansk, says Ukraine

Moscow launches massive artillery bombardments and airstrikes on eastern city, after Sievierodonetsk destroyed

The Guardian - UK

Russian Missiles Strike Across Ukraine

Russian missiles rained down across Ukraine on Saturday, hitting military facilities in the west and the north as well as a southern city as the biggest land conflict in Europe since World War Two entered its fifth month. Russian artillery and airstrikes pounded the twin cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Sievierodonetsk falls to Russia after one of war's bloodiest fights

Russian forces fully occupied the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Saturday, both sides said, confirming Kyiv's biggest battlefield setback for more than a month following weeks of some of the war's bloodiest fighting.

Reuters

Ukraine news – live: Russian airstrikes hit Kyiv in ‘symbolic’ attack as G7 summit starts

Multiple air strikes have hit Ukraine as EU leaders gathered in Germany for the international G7 summit

The Independent UK

Ukrainian forces to withdraw from eastern city of Sievierodonetsk

The last Ukrainian troops holding out in a desperate battle for the city of Sievierodonetsk are ordered to withdraw, but analysts say it is not a major strategic victory for Moscow.

ABC News

Analysis-Russia's grinding battlefield gains seen driven by new tactics

It took Russia weeks of fierce fighting, an untold number of casualties, and relentless shelling before the exhausted Ukrainian defenders of Sievierodonetsk received orders to quit its smouldering wreckage.

Reuters

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Britons condemned in Donetsk holding out for intervention from UK - lawyer

The lawyer defending one of two Britons sentenced to death in a Russian-backed breakaway territory of Ukraine said on Friday that they had not yet submitted an appeal because they seemed to be holding out for intervention from London.

Reuters

What does Russia’s capture of Severodonetsk mean for Ukraine?

Ukrainian forces are retreating from the eastern city after weeks of fierce fighting.

Al Jazeera

Ukrainian troops to retreat from besieged city of Severodonetsk

BEIRUT — A monthslong defense that saw Ukrainian troops endure relentless bombardment and ferocious street skirmishes against their Russian adversaries ended Friday when military authorities ordered a retreat from the besieged city of Severodonetsk.

Los Angeles Times

Ukrainian Army to Leave Battered City to Avoid Encirclement

After weeks of ferocious fighting, Ukrainian forces will retreat from a besieged city in the country's east to avoid encirclement, a regional governor said Friday. The city of Sievierodonetsk, the administrative center of the Luhansk region, has faced relentless Russian bombardment.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine forces to retreat from embattled Severodonetsk: Governor

Local governor says troops have received order to leave the city after weeks of fighting against Russian troops.

Al Jazeera

Pro-Russian DPR Fires Salvos From Multiple Rocket Launcher Vehicles At Ukrainian Positions

These images purport to show forces of the pro-Russia so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) firing salvos from multiple rocket launcher vehicles at Ukrainian positions.

Zenger

Ukraine calls for arms as fight for Luhansk at ‘fearful climax’

Russia captures more villages south of Severodonetsk while all of Lysychansk is now within the reach of Russian fire.

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Two Britons, Moroccan facing death penalty in Donetsk preparing appeal -TASS

Two Britons and a Moroccan who were captured while fighting for Ukraine and sentenced to death by a court in the self-proclaimed breakaway Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) are preparing to appeal, the TASS news agency cited one of their lawyers as saying on Thursday.

Reuters

Britain says Russia boosts pressure in advance on Ukraine's Lysychansk

Russian forces advancing towards the Ukrainian city of Lysychansk are putting increasing pressure on the surrounding region, including the twin city of Sievierodonetsk, Britain's defence ministry said on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Aiden Aslin: ‘Time running out’ to stop execution of Briton sentenced to death by Donetsk separatists

Family of 28-year-old say his captors have told him ‘nobody from UK has made contact and that he will be executed’

The Guardian - UK

Russia bears down on Lysychansk, targeting police and judicial buildings

Moscow’s troops move on to city neighbouring Sievierodonetsk, after capturing all but chemical plant there

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Will the war with Russia rein in Ukraine’s oligarchs?

The conflict may harm rich figures in financial terms and hand Zelenskyy victory in his battle against their influence.

Daily Mirror

Ukraine school blasted by Russian incendiary bomb as '200 schools destroyed'

School Number 6 in Avdiivka, a city in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk, was set on fire after Russian troops used incendiary bombs to destroy the third school in the area

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin ally says Britain 'arrogant' over death sentence given to two Brits

The Brits surrendered to the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic forces in Mariupol, and have since been sentenced by a court in the rebel region to be shot by a firing squad

Reuters

Russia: Britain asks for help over Donetsk death sentences

Russia's ambassador in London said on Tuesday that Britain had asked for Moscow's help in connection with two British citizens sentenced to death in a Russian-backed separatist region for fighting for Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Russian forces seize frontline Donbas village: Ukrainian official

Head of the Severodonetsk district military administration says Toshkivka is now ‘controlled entirely by the Russians’.

The Guardian - UK

US volunteer fighters captured in Ukraine could face death penalty, says Russia

Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, 27, from Alabama have been taken into detention in Donetsk

Reuters

Kremlin says it does not know location of captured U.S. 'mercenaries'

The Kremlin said on Tuesday it did not know the location of two Americans captured while fighting in eastern Ukraine, but that they were mercenaries and could be sentenced to death in Russian-backed breakaway territories.

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