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Ukraine to Hold First War Crimes Trial as Moscow Says Kyiv Shelled Russian City

Ukraine announced it will hold its first war crimes trial over the Russian invasion, as Moscow accused Kyiv of shelling a Russian city in the war's latest flashpoint. The conflict has devastated cities and displaced millions, with fears also growing of its broader international impact as gas supplies to Europe…

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Ukraine offers to swap prisoners for hurt Mariupol fighters

Ukraine offered to release Russian prisoners of war in exchange for the safe evacuation of the badly injured fighters trapped inside a steel mill in the ruined city of Mariupol

The Independent UK

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 78 of the invasion

Finland ditches decades of non-alignment in plan to join Nato; UN says 1,000 bodies recovered in Kyiv area

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Ukraine Cuts Russia Gas at 1 Hub, Underlining Risk to Supply

Ukraine shut down a pipeline Wednesday that carries Russian natural gas to homes and industries in Western Europe, while a Kremlin-installed official in a southern region seized by Russian troops said the area will ask Moscow to annex it. The talk of annexation in Kherson - and Russia's apparent willingness…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kherson’s military administrators to call for Russian annexation

Unclear if Kremlin will agree to annex captured Ukrainian territory or use threat to put pressure on Kyiv

The Guardian - UK

Pro-Moscow leaders of Ukraine's occupied Kherson seek to join Russia - TASS

The Russian-occupied region of Kherson in Ukraine plans to ask President Vladimir Putin to incorporate it into Russia by the end of the year, TASS news agency reported on Wednesday, citing an official from the Russian-controlled administration there.

Reuters

Kremlin says it's up to people of occupied Ukraine region to decide whether to join Russia

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was up to residents living in the Russian-occupied region of Kherson in southern Ukraine to decide whether they wanted to join Russia, but any such decision must have a clear legal basis.

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In Ukraine’s Kherson region, civilians flee Russian-held territory on foot

A large swath of southern Ukraine is currently under Russian control, including most of the Kherson region, where Russian forces are preventing civilians from leaving the area. Yet thousands have been making the journey, fraught with risk, to get out. Our correspondent Gulliver Cragg sent this report from Ukrainian-held territory…

France 24

Ukraine's Kherson region prepares for Russian counteroffensives

Fighting continues to rage in southern Ukraine. Here, Russian forces hold the port city of Kherson and they claim to control the whole administrative region, of which Kherson is the capital. But in fact they don’t: Ukrainian counterattacks in March brought a small part of that region back under Kyiv’s…

France 24

In Ukraine, volunteers step up in Mykolaiv

In southern Ukraine, Mykolaiv is the first major city behind the front line, as the nation's army faces off against Russian forces to the southeast in occupied Kherson. As such, the town has seen regular bombardments and nearby combat that led to its water supply being severed in mid-April. Throughout…

France 24

EU countries are ‘almost there’ in agreeing to bloc’s proposed new package of sanctions against Russia – as it happened

This blog has now closed. You can find our latest coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in our new live blog

The Guardian - UK

Live updates | Ukraine: 11 attacks repelled in Donbas region

Ukraine’s General Staff says the country’s forces made some gains on the border of the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv and repelled multiple Russian attacks in the east

The Independent UK

Russia seeks to annex occupied Ukraine as invasion goals shift

Nearly 10 weeks into the war and with its troops making only marginal gains in Ukraine’s east, Russia is focused on cementing both military and political control over the territory it has taken so far.

Tribune News Service

US: Russia plans to annex separatist statelets in Ukraine

Moscow may annex Luhansk and Donetsk ‘republics’ mid-May and turn Kherson into proxy state, US ambassador to OSCE says.

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US Official: Russia Plans to Annex Parts of Eastern Ukraine

Russia plans to annex much of eastern Ukraine later this month, a senior US official warned, and the Mariupol steel mill that is the city’s last stronghold of resistance came under renewed assault a day after the first evacuation of civilians from the plant. Michael Carpenter, US ambassador to the…

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 69 of the invasion

Evacuees from besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol reach Zaporizhzhia; Russia attacks steel works where 200 people remain trapped

Reuters

Russia reroutes internet traffic in occupied Ukraine to its infrastructure

Russia has rerouted internet traffic in the occupied Ukrainian region of Kherson through Russian communications infrastructure, the internet service disruption monitor NetBlocks said on Monday.

Evening Standard

Russian-controlled Kherson forced to begin using rouble

The Russian-occupied city of Kherson has been forced to start using the rouble, British defence chiefs have said.

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Some Evacuated from Mariupol; US Lawmaker Pelosi Visits Kyiv

Some women and children have been evacuated from a steel plant that is the last defensive stronghold in the bombed-out ruins of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, while US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Ukraine's president in the country's capital in a show of American support. Russia's high-stakes offensive in…

Reuters

Britain says Russia eyes long-term control of Ukraine's Kherson

Russia probably aims to exert strong political and economic influence on Ukraine's southern region of Kherson in the long term, after ruling out its return to Ukrainian control and initiating a currency switch to the rouble, Britain said.

The Independent UK

Live updates l Blinken says US diplomats to visit Kyiv again

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says American diplomats are making plans to return to Ukraine as soon as possible

The Independent UK

Stress of UK’s Ukrainian visa delays impacted British host’s ‘whole life’

Marcin Zawisza is offering his home to Olena Stadnik, who has been stuck near the Russian-occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine.

Reuters

Russian-controlled region of Ukraine will start using rouble, official says -RIA

Ukraine's southern Kherson region will start using the Russian rouble from May 1, an official from a pro-Russian committee which styles itself as the region's "military-civil administration" told Russian news agency RIA.

The Independent UK

Occupied Ukrainian city fears sham Russian referendum plans

While the world’s attention has focused on the fighting around Ukraine’s capital and the east, Russia swiftly captured and has held onto swaths of the country’s southern territory for two months

Daily Mirror

Occupied Ukraine region of Kherson will be forced to 'adopt Russian money'

Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti claims that the captured region of Kerson will be made to use the Russian ruble currency from the start of May with a four-month transition period

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