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The Latest Breaking News from Kharkiv

Civilians flee eastern Ukraine in advance of a widely forecast attack – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian authorities in Kharkiv begin clearing landmines

Ukrainian authorities in the northeastern city of Kharkiv warned people not to go near what they said were landmines being dropped on the city.

Reuters

Mariupol Mayor Says Siege Has Killed More than 10,000 Civilians

The mayor of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol said Monday that more than 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege of his city, and that the death toll could surpass 20,000, with corpses that were "carpeted through the streets.” Speaking by phone Monday to The Associated Press, Mayor…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Multiple casualties after shelling of Ukraine's Kharkiv, mayor tells TV

Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv came under heavy shelling on Monday, causing multiple casualties including one dead child, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said in a televised interview.

Reuters

Inside a Ukrainian village where farmers stay for the wheat harvest but fear Russian attack

The wheat has been sown for the coming season but nobody in Yakovlivka, a small farming village outside Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, knows if it will be harvested.

Reuters

Ukraine Repulses Attacks in East as Russia Presses to Control Mariupol

Ukrainian troops have repulsed several Russian assaults in the country's east, British intelligence said on Monday, while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said thousands of Russian soldiers were massing for a new offensive. Russian forces were also pushing to establish control over the southern port city of Mariupol, the lynchpin between Russian-held…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukrainian Defenders Dig in as Russia Boosts Firepower

A showdown looms in Ukraine as Russia appointed a new military commander and looked to concentrate its attacks on the eastern part of the country, while Ukraine’s president said his troops will hold their ground, and urged Western leaders, in particular President Joe Biden, to do more. Ukrainian President Volodymyr…

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Ukrainian defenders dig in as Russia boosts firepower

Ukrainian forces dug in while Russia’s military lined up more firepower and tapped an experienced general to take centralized control of the war

The Independent UK

New Russian war chief will bring more brutality in Ukraine, US warns

Moscow promotes Alexander Dvornikov, who led Russian troops in Syria, as it regroups for Donbas battle

The Guardian - US

Two killed, several injured by Russian shelling -- Kharkiv governor

Two people were killed and several injured on Sunday in the Ukrainian town of Derhachy in the northeastern Kharkiv region, regional governor Oleh Synyehubov said in a Facebook post.

Reuters

Ceramic cockerels surprise Boris Johnson and Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Kyiv walk

‘I’m from London’ says British PM. ‘I know, I’m from Kharkiv,’ says bystander proffering traditional jugs that in the war have come to symbolise Ukrainian resilience

The Guardian - AU

Child found burned alive and civilians mutilated at 'torture chamber' in Ukraine

Photographs of burnt bodies found after village near Kharkiv is liberated appear to show evidence that Russia's soldiers have been torturing innocent Ukrainians

Daily Mirror

In a Ukraine maternity ward: the roar of bombs, a newborn’s cry

KHARKIV, Ukraine — While death stalks their city, a dozen Ukrainian women wait to bring new life into the world.

Los Angeles Times

AP PHOTOS on Day 43: Gathering the dead, clutching to life

At a home in Bucha, from where Russian soldiers recently retreated, municipal workers remove a dead body. In a school yard in Chernihiv, a boy clutching a loaf of bread is part of a crowd receiving humanitarian aid. And at a training camp near Kharkiv, a soldier practices rappelling down…

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Daily Mirror

Proof of Russian war crimes exposed in damning report - including mum raped as son hid

Amnesty International has obtained evidence that civilians were killed in indiscriminate attacks in Kharkiv and Sumy Oblast, and documented an airstrike that killed civilians queueing for food in Chernihiv

France 24

Underground in Chuhuiv, Ukraine: Meet the civilians hiding from Russian bombs

In Chuhuiv, thousands of Ukrainians have been living underground since the war started nearly six weeks ago. This small town south-east of Kharkiv has been caught in the crossfire – until recently cut off from the outside world when it was surrounded by Russian troops. Evacuations are too dangerous to…

Reuters

Russia says it destroyed fuel storage facilities in four Ukrainian cities

The Russian defence ministry said on Thursday its missiles had destroyed four fuel storage facilities in the Ukrainian cities of Mykolayiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Chuhuiv overnight.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Eastern Ukraine Town Empties as Residents Fear New Russian Assault

Dragging trolleys and clutching plastic bags with their meager belongings, residents of the northeastern Ukrainian town of Derhachi, near the border with Russia, boarded buses on Wednesday to be evacuated as fears of a Russian assault grew. Since pulling back from outside the capital Kyiv last week, Russian forces have…

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Fries The Limit: Russian Fighter-Bomber Jet Down In Flames

The Sukhoi Su-34 was first developed for the Soviet Union,with an initial flight in 1990.

The Independent UK

Kharkiv zoo prepares to kill lions and tigers in case Russian shelling lets them loose in city

Big cats ‘miraculously’ survive five weeks of Russian shelling, the owner says

Reuters

Russian envoy blames Ukraine for Kharkiv humanitarian disaster

A senior Russian diplomat blamed Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday for a humanitarian catastrophe in the city of Kharkiv, accusing the Ukrainian army of blocking humanitarian corridors and alleging that a far-right militia had set up in a school.

France 24

From Ukraine with love: Newlyweds defy Russian bombs in Kharkiv

Authorities in the Kharkiv region have reported more than 50 shells have fallen in the past 24 hours alone as Russian attacks on the northeastern Ukrainian city continue. But even as the prospect of a Russian offensive looms large, one couple has chosen to send out a message of love…

Daily Mirror

Fiery wreck of Russia’s newest fighter jet burns with pilot kneeling beside it

The Su-35S, Flanker-E fighter jet, which costs £38million, was brought down near the city of Izyum, in the Kharkiv region

Reuters

Ukraine says Russia is preparing eastern assault, attack on Kharkiv

Ukraine's defence ministry said on Monday Russia is preparing to launch a fresh assault in eastern Ukraine to try to take the city of Kharkiv and encircle Ukraine's heavily fortified eastern frontline.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin 'driven insane' when Ukrainians didn't meet troops 'with flowers'

Exiled Russian billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky claims President Vladimir Putin went "literally insane" after Ukrainians didn't meet his troops with open arms in Kharkiv

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