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'Show' trial of foreign fighters in Donetsk breaks with international law – and could itself be a war crime

The sentencing to death of three foreign fighters captured by Russian troops and handed over to authorities in a breakaway region in Ukraine presents a serious deviation from international law – one that in itself represents a war crime.

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Fears grow for Sievierodonetsk civilians as plant struck and bridges destroyed

Luhansk governor says Russia has ‘significant advantage’ but part of city is still under Ukrainian controlRussia-Ukraine war – latest updates

The Guardian - UK

Last Route Out of Sievierodonetsk Falls as Russian Artillery Pounds City

Russian forces tightened their grip on the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk and cut off the last routes for evacuating citizens, a Ukrainian official said on Monday - a scene that echoed Moscow's assault on Mariupol last month. Amid heavy Russian bombardment, regional governor Sergei Gaidai said on social media…

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'Hero' former British soldier killed fighting on front line in Ukraine

Jordan Gatley's father Dean said that he was informed on June 10 that his son was killed while fighting on the front line in the city of Severodonetsk.

Daily Record

Police investigating killings of 12,000 Ukrainians in war

Ukraine's national police chief says authorities are investigating the killings of more than 12,000 Ukrainians nationwide in the war Russia is waging

The Independent UK

Moroccan sentenced to death in Donetsk has Ukrainian nationality, not a mercenary - father

The father of a Moroccan man sentenced to death by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) on mercenary charges said his son should be treated as a prisoner of war as he is a Ukrainian national who handed himself in voluntarily.

Reuters

Five killed, 22 injured in Ukrainian artillery attacks in Donetsk, Russian-backed separatists say

(This Jun.13 story refiles to fix typo in headline)

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Russian state TV gloats over sham ruling of Brit fighters condemned to death

Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner were last week sentenced to death by a sham trial in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, leading to gloating by the Kremlin's state TV

Daily Mirror

Bomb Experts Bury Unexploded Missiles And Carry Out Controlled Explosion

This is the moment Ukrainian bomb experts bury a pile of unexploded missiles and military equipment and carry out a controlled explosion.

Zenger

Ukrainian, Russian Forces Fight for 'Every Meter' in Severodonetsk

Ukrainian and Russian forces were fighting for "literally every meter" in Severodonetsk, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as fighting intensified in an eastern region where the country's top commander said the land "is covered in blood". Severodonetsk and nearby Lysychansk have been targeted for weeks as the last areas in the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Amid fierce fighting, Russian forces cut last Sievierodonetsk escape route

Russian forces tightened their grip on the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday, a Ukrainian official said, cutting off the last routes for evacuating citizens in a scene that echoed last month's siege of the port of Mariupol.

Reuters

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 110 of the invasion

Russian artillery bombarding industrial area of Sievierodonetsk; Finnish president says Russia using ‘weapons of mass destruction’

The Guardian - UK

Family of Edinburgh soldier killed while fighting in Ukraine speak of their 'devastating' loss

Jordan Gatley was shot dead in city of Severodonetsk where intense fighting has been raging for days.

Daily Record

Under relentless Russian bombardment, Severodonetsk and other eastern Ukrainian cities are slowly dying

LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine — How does a city die? To find out, turn to Severodonetsk, at the very edge of the Ukrainian government's control on the eastern front, and currently the focal point of the fight between its soldiers and the Russians who have invaded.

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Russia Destroys Bridge over Ukrainian River, Cutting Escape Route

Russian forces have blown up a bridge linking the embattled Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk to another city across the river, cutting off a possible evacuation route for civilians, local officials said on Sunday. Sievierodonetsk has become the epicenter of the battle for control over Ukraine's eastern region of Donbas. Parts…

The Guardian - UK

Fighting in eastern Ukraine rages as Sievierodonetsk chemical plant hit

Regional governor says Azot plant, where hundreds of civilians are taking shelter, remains under Ukrainian control

Reuters

No pardon for Britons sentenced to death, pro-Russian separatist leader says

The leader of the Russian-backed separatist Donetsk region of Ukraine said on Sunday there was no reason to pardon two British nationals who were sentenced to death last week after being captured while fighting for Ukraine.

The Guardian - UK

Moroccan sentenced to death is a victim of Russian ‘games’, friends say

Brahim Saadoun is a much-loved marine on active duty, they insist, and not a mercenary, as court in Donetsk claims

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Evening Standard

Russia forces using ‘thermobaric rocket artillery’ in Severodonetsk

Severodonetsk has become epicentre of the battle in eastern Ukraine for control over the industrialised Donbas region

The Guardian - AU

The bodies of Ukrainian fighters killed during the Azovstal steelworks siege are still awaiting retrieval – as it happened

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WEKU

A UK man got a death sentence for fighting for Ukraine. His family wants his release

A court in the separatist-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic of Ukraine convicted Shaun Pinner of seeking the violent overthrow of power.

Reuters

Russia destroys bridge over Ukrainian river, cutting escape route

Al Jazeera

Ukraine latest updates: Moscow ‘destroys’ Western weapons depot

Ukraine news from June 12: Moscow claims Ukrainian jets downed in eastern region as fighting rages in Severodonetsk.

Al Jazeera

Casualty warnings as Russia said to use deadlier weapons in war

Moscow reportedly using older, deadlier missiles in fierce fighting for control of eastern Ukraine.

The Guardian - AU

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

Ukraine ‘almost out of ammunition’; death sentences at a show trial; the battle for Sievierodonetsk

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