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The Latest Breaking News from Donetsk

EU drafts proposal to phase in a ban on Russian oil – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK

British 'mercs' captured while fighting for Ukraine threatened with the death penalty

Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin charged with 'a number of crimes against civilians of the Donetsk People’s Republic'

Wales Online

Ukraine crisis: What are the Minsk agreements?

Emmanuel Macron insisted revival of accords from 2014 and 2015 ‘only path on which peace can be built’

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Ukraine: Where is Donbas, and what are the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics?

Pro-Russian separatist regions in Donbas declared independence from Kyiv in 2014

The Independent UK

Civilians attempt evacuation from Ukraine’s besieged Mariupol

Ukrainian authorities attempted further evacuations from Mariupol on Monday, following an initial operation to remove around 100 civilians from the besieged Azovstal steel plant. Meanwhile, in Brussels, EU energy ministers held emergency talks as the bloc considers a phasing out of Russian oil imports. Read about the day’s events as…

France 24

Russia-Ukraine latest updates: Germany ‘ready’ to ban Russian oil

Ukraine news from May 2: Economy minister says Berlin could back embargo, as EU energy ministers debate fresh sanctions.

Al Jazeera

Russia strikes Ukraine's east, south; Civilians evacuated from Mariupol plant

Russia carried out missile strikes across southern and eastern Ukraine on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said, and some women and children were evacuated from a steel plant in the besieged city of Mariupol after sheltering there for over a week.

Reuters

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Oil depot damaged in Ukraine's Donetsk - report

Ukrainian forces have shelled and damaged an oil depot in the city of Donetsk in the country's east which is held by Russian-backed separatists, the RIA news agency quoted a separatist official as saying on Friday.

Reuters

Blasts hit Kyiv while UN chief visiting, Ukraine blames Russian missile attacks

Russia has fired two missiles into the Ukrainian capital Kyiv during a visit by the UN secretary-general, with one hitting the lower floor of a residential building and injuring at least three people, the city's mayor says.

ABC News

Donetsk separatists’ desperate draft campaign empties streets of men

Men under 65 are spending their days in hiding, leaving wives and sisters to take over their jobs

The Guardian - UK

Russia wants to capture fighters in Mariupol steel works, local governor says

Russia is preventing wounded Ukrainian fighters being evacuated from a vast steel works in the southern city of Mariupol because it wants to capture them, the local governor said on Thursday.

Reuters

Live Updates | Russia picking up pace in eastern Ukraine

Ukraine’s General Staff says Russia is increasing the pace of its offensive in the east of the country

The Independent UK

'Nobody wants to run from the war' – a voice from Ukraine's displaced millions describes the conflicting pulls of home, family and safety

More than 5 million people left Ukraine as refugees between Feb. 24 and April 24, 2022, mostly to neighboring countries Poland, Romania, Moldova, Hungary and Slovakia.

The Conversation

One woman killed in Russian shelling of hospital in east Ukraine, local governor says

A woman was killed in Russian shelling of a hospital in the east Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Wednesday, the regional governor said.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine Football League Declares Season over after Invasion

The Ukrainian football season has officially been called off because of the Russian invasion, creating a path for Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv to be entered in next season's Champions League. The league said after a video conference with clubs Tuesday that the standings as of Feb.

Reuters

Two killed by Russian shelling in Ukraine's Donetsk region - governor

Two people were killed and six wounded in Russian shelling of Ukraine's eastern region of Donetsk on Tuesday, the regional governor said.

Reuters

Russia-backed separatist leader says Moscow should launch next phase of Ukraine campaign

The Russian-backed separatist leader of the Ukrainian breakaway region of Donetsk said on Tuesday that Moscow should launch the next stage of its military campaign in Ukraine after reaching the region's frontiers, RIA news agency quoted him as saying.

Reuters

Four people including two children killed in Ukraine's Donetsk region - governor

Four people including two children were killed on Monday in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region where Russia is on the offensive, the region's governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said.

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The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: Welcome to Donetsk by Anastasia Taylor-Lind

A poet and photojournalist reflects on her experiences working in Ukraine, both in 2014 and now

Zenger

VIDEO: Ukrainian Forces Annihilate Column Of Russian Tanks

The footage was reportedly filmed near Krasnohorivka, which is a city located in the Donetsk Oblast region, in eastern Ukraine.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukrainian Counterattacks Slowing Russian Offensive in East

Russian troops are pressing their offensive in the eastern Donbas region in an attempt to fully seize Ukraine's industrial heartland but have made little headway as fierce Ukrainian counterattacks have slowed their efforts, Ukrainian and British officials said Saturday. Russia continues to fight for full control of the Donetsk and…

The Independent UK

Live updates | Ukraine: Russian offensive continues in east

The Ukraine military’s general staff says that Russian forces continue their “offensive operations” in eastern Ukraine with the goal of defeating Ukrainian forces, establishing full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and securing a land route between these territories and the occupied Crimea

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Says Ukrainian Fighters ‘Securely Blockaded’ at Mariupol Steel Plant

Russia's defense ministry said on Friday that Ukrainian fighters and foreign mercenaries had been "securely blockaded" at the Azovstal steel plant where they have been holding out in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. President Vladimir Putin had ordered his defense minister on Thursday to block off the vast Azovstal complex…

Reuters

Ukraine official: Russia captured 42 villages in Donetsk region on Thursday

Russian forces captured 42 villages in the eastern Donetsk region on Thursday, but Ukraine might take them back, an aide to the chief of staff to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told national television.

Al Jazeera

What’s behind pro-Russian attitudes in eastern Ukraine?

Some say a ‘special kind of paternalism’ runs through the Russian-speaking regions full of mines, factories and plants.

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