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The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

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 · Jun 24, 2022

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 · Jun 24, 2022

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 · Jun 24, 2022

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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 · Jun 24, 2022

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 · Jun 24, 2022

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 · Jun 24, 2022

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 · Jun 24, 2022

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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 · Jun 24, 2022

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.

Al Jazeera · Jun 23, 2022

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 · Jun 23, 2022

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.

Reuters · Jun 23, 2022

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 Independent UK · Jun 22, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Jun 22, 2022

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.

Al Jazeera · Jun 22, 2022

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Daily Mirror · Jun 21, 2022

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 · Jun 21, 2022

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 · Jun 21, 2022

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 · Jun 21, 2022

Russian forces seize frontline Donbas village: Ukrainian official

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

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The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2022

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 · Jun 21, 2022

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.

Reuters · Jun 20, 2022

Moscow fumes over Lithuania rail ban to Russian region

(This June 21 story corrects in paragraph 4 to show gas flows via Ukraine and Nord Stream 1 pipeline have fallen, removes reference to Russia cutting flows via Ukraine as act of retaliation)

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2022

Ukrainian missiles hit Black Sea gas platforms, say Russian officials

Reports of strikes come as Russia’s forces said to be gathering for final assault on Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk

Zenger · Jun 20, 2022

Moment Ukrainian Soldiers Shoot Down Massive Russian Helicopter Gunship

This is the moment Ukrainian soldiers reportedly shoot down a massive Russian helicopter gunship.

Al Jazeera · Jun 20, 2022

Ukraine latest updates: Russians at Severodonetsk industry zone

Ukraine news from June 20: Russian troops enter Severodonetsk industrial zone, according to Luhansk’s regional governor.

Reuters · Jun 19, 2022

Four months into war, more Ukrainians decide to flee besieged areas

Four months into the Russian invasion on Ukraine, Lilya, a 22-year-old mother from the eastern city of Bakhmut, decided the time has come to leave the beleaguered region.

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