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Ukraine pleads for more weapons to tackle Russian onslaught in Donbas

Bombardment continues in 40 towns including the key city of Sievierodonetsk as police in Lysychansk collect bodies for mass burials

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Donbas separatist leader calls for Russia's military operation to be accelerated - RIA

The leader of Russian-backed separatists in the breakaway Donetsk region called on Thursday for the military operation in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine to be accelerated, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.

Reuters

Timeline: Week 13 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 13 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Russian forces edge closer to encircling Ukraine troops in east

Advancing Russian forces came closer to surrounding Ukrainian troops in the east, briefly seizing positions on the last highway out of a crucial pair of Ukrainian-held cities before being beaten back, a Ukrainian official said on Thursday.

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Russian assault on eastern Ukraine threatens to encircle Sievierodonetsk

Zelenskiy calls situation in Donbas ‘extremely difficult’ as Russia tries to carve up Ukrainian-held territory

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Nato ‘doing literally nothing’ to stop Russia, says Kyiv – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 91 of the invasion

Invasion in ‘most active phase’, says Ukraine; Russian forces take control of three Donetsk regions; 200 bodies found in Mariupol basement

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Russia seeks to put stranglehold on twin Ukrainian cities

Russian forces sought to encircle Ukrainian troops in twin eastern cities straddling a river as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Moscow was seeking to destroy the industrial Donbas region where it has focused its attacks.

Reuters

Russia-Ukraine live news: Kyiv appeals for rocket launchers

Describing an ‘extremely bad’ situation as Ukraine battles for Severodonetsk, FM Kuleba calls for more weapons.

Al Jazeera

Russia launches all-out assault to encircle Ukraine troops in east

Moscow is attempting to seize the Donbas region of two eastern provinces, Donetsk and Luhansk

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Too late to evacuate civilians in face of Russian attack, says Luhansk official

Sievierodonetsk under intense bombardment and surrounded on three sides by Russian forces

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine’s President Accuses Russia of Waging ‘Total War’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of waging "total war," seeking to inflict as much death and destruction as possible as in three months of conflict, as fighting raged Tuesday in the eastern Donbas region. Russian forces have intensified efforts to encircle and capture Sievierodonetsk and neighboring cities, the only…

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Russia pounds Ukraine's east as town buries dead in mass grave

Russian forces on Wednesday pounded Ukrainian-held twin cities in the Donbas region that is now the focus of the three-month war, threatening to shut off the last main escape route for civilians trapped in the path of their advance.

Reuters

Russia using ‘scorched earth’ tactics in Donbas, Ukraine says

Luhansk governor accuses Russia of indiscriminately shelling Severodonetsk, which has only one working hospital left.

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Azovstal fighters to face trial in breakaway region -Ifax cites separatist leader

The leader of Ukraine's breakaway Donetsk People's Republic on Monday said the fighters who surrendered at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol will a face trial in the separatist region, Interfax news agency reported.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian Offensive Turns to Key Donbas City, Heavy Shelling

Ukrainians were digging in to defend the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk as it endured heavy bombardment from Russian forces trying to take the industrial area known as the Donbas. In Tokyo on Monday, President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida joined in condemning Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

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VIDEO: War In Ukraine: Troops Destroy Russian Armoured Unit Trying To Cross Seversky Donets River

These images show the destruction of Russian armored vehicles after Ukrainian troops stopped them from crossing the Seversky Donets River.

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War Crimes Verdict Looms as Russian Offensive Intensifies

With a verdict due Monday in the conflict’s first war crimes trial, Moscow's offensive in eastern Ukraine is only intensifying, with the city of Severodonetsk under "round-the-clock" bombardment as Russian troops attempt its encirclement. The trial in Kyiv -- seen as a public test of the Ukrainian judicial system's independence…

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The Guardian - AU

Zelenskiy says Putin is the only Russian official he is willing to meet with to discuss how to end the war – as it happened

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Evening Standard

Ukraine repells ‘four attacks’ in Donbas to block Russian from securing Severodonetsk

Russian forces reportedly deployed an armoured fighting vehicle known as the Terminator tank to advance on Severodontesk in eastern Ukraine

Reuters

Ukraine rejects concessions as Russians attack in east and south

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow as Russia stepped up its attack in the eastern and southern parts of the country, pounding the Donbas and Mykolaiv regions with air strikes and artillery fire.

Daily Mirror

Putin suffers ‘humiliating defeat’ as 'graveyard' of Russian military vehicles found

Ukrainian military chiefs claim to have killed hundreds of enemy soldiers as they attempted to cross the Seversky Donets River close to Severodonetsk in the east of the country

The Guardian - UK

Intense fighting around Severodonetsk as Zelenskiy says Donbas is ‘hell’

Russian forces thought to be trying to cut one of the main supply routes to Ukrainian defenders in the area

The Independent UK

‘It is hell there’: Ukraine’s Donbas ‘completely destroyed’ by relentless bombardment, Zelensky says

President accuses Moscow of carrying out ‘senseless bombardment’ in east of country

Reuters

Over half of Ukrainian fighters have left Azovstal, pro-Russian separatist says

More than half the Ukrainian fighters in the bunkers below the Azovstal steel plant have surrendered, the leader of the Russian-backed rebel Donetsk region said on Thursday, and the International Committee of the Red Cross is registering them.

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