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Ukraine war: the bloody battle for Soledar and what it tells us about the future of the conflict

The battle over the eastern Ukrainian town of Soledar has been raging for several days now, with claims and counter-claims about whether Russia now has full control there.

The Conversation

Russian forces press deadly assault for breakthrough in east

Russia says its forces are edging closer to capturing a salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin demotes Russia’s top commander ‘General Armageddon’ as his forces suffer major setbacks in Ukraine

Experts have described the move as a "significant" development.

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Factbox-Who is Russia's new war commander Gerasimov and why was he appointed?

President Vladimir Putin's defence minister has appointed Russia's most senior general, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, 67, to lead its war in Ukraine, the most dramatic in a series of senior command changes since Russia invaded in February.

Reuters

Putin’s change of commander in Ukraine is ‘sign of desperation’, says ex-British Army chief

Lord Richard Dannatt suggests General Gerasimov could even try to topple President Putin, whose position he was was ‘increasingly insecure’

Evening Standard

Vladimir Putin replaces top Ukraine commander 'General Armageddon' after just 3 months

While overseeing troops in Ukraine, Sergei Surovikin was crediting with strengthening coordination, reinforcing control and introducing a campaign of knocking out Ukraine's energy infrastructure

Daily Mirror

The Kremlin and elites in times of war

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin’s political strategy has underlined that economic, military and political power is in his hands. The most obvious demonstration of Putin’s authoritarian rule has consisted of extended meetings with his government’s security council, whose members seem to merely approve…

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Putin replaces infamous ‘General Armageddon’ after just three months in Ukraine military shake-up

Kyiv officials say intensity of fighting comparable to Second World War, with Russia’s Wager mercenary group claiming ‘complete liberation’ of mining town

The Independent UK

Ukraine says its forces hold out after 'hot' night in Soledar

Ukraine said on Friday its forces were still holding out in the eastern salt mining town of Soledar after a "hot" night of fighting in what has become one of the bloodiest battlefields of the entire war.

Reuters

Falling Russian fossil fuel revenues could deal a lethal blow to Putin's war machine

Vladimir Putin is starting to see the main financing mechanism for his war in Ukraine dry up.

Fortune

Top Russian military officer put in charge of Ukraine action

Russia’s top military officer has been put in charge of troops fighting in Ukraine on Wednesday

The Independent UK

The battle for Bakhmut: Russia's bloody bid for Ukraine breakthrough

Soledar, a salt-mining town of 10,000 people in eastern Ukraine, is the new focal point of a war where the Kremlin badly needs some good news from the battlefield. We ask who controls the town that's a gateway to the Donbas city of Bakhmut, where the Russians have been pushing…

France 24

Putin authorises military shake-up in Ukraine – as Zelensky mocks claims town of Soledar has been seized

Kyiv officials say intensity of fighting comparable to Second World War, with Russian mercenary group claiming ‘complete liberation’ of town

The Independent UK

Russia's Putin and Iran's Raisi discuss energy and transport in telephone call

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed energy and transport projects with Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi in a telephone call on Wednesday, the Kremlin said.

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Al Jazeera

Why does ‘Putin’s chef’ want Ukraine’s Soledar so badly?

Seizing the salt-mining town could offer the Wagner Group chief Kremlin clout. Ukraine says it is still in Kyiv’s hands.

Daily Mirror

Russian army on ropes after dramatic 75% plunge in artillery fire in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin's boys are only firing artillery at around 75 per cent of their wartime high, a massive drop, which could be due to dwindling stockpiles of rockets or a reassessment of tactics

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin awards armed robber with 'courage' honour for fighting in Ukraine

Hayk Gasparyan, 31, was freed from his maximum security jail under a scheme allowing hardened prisoners to serve in pro-Kremlin forces illegally invading Ukraine

The Independent UK

Report: Oil price cap takes small slice of Russia war chest

Russia's still making plenty of money from oil sales despite a price cap imposed by the Group of Seven major democracies

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Reuters

Russia says it is advancing around Ukraine's Soledar, acknowledges losses

Russia said on Wednesday that it was making progress in military operations around the small salt mining town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine and had positive momentum, but acknowledged suffering heavy casualties.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia's Wagner Says it Controls Ukraine's Soledar

The head of Russia's mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said early Wednesday his fighters had taken control of Ukraine's city of Soledar after intense fighting this week, but some "urban battles" continued. "Wagner units have taken control of the whole territory of Soledar," Prigozhin said through his press service on…

Reuters

Zelenskiy strips Putin ally Medvedchuk, three others of Ukrainian citizenship

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stripped four political figures of their Ukrainian citizenship on Tuesday, including pro-Kremlin politician Viktor Medvedchuk who was transferred to Russia last year in a prisoner swap deal.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin’s most senior official to quit over Ukraine war and 'plans to move to UK'

Vladimir Putin's ex-Kremlin chief of staff Anatoly Chubais, who stood down over war in Ukraine, is reportedly planning to move to the UK after a poisoning scare

The Independent UK

Armenia cancels military drills, widening rift with Moscow

Armenia’s prime minister says his country has refused to host military drills planned by a Russia-dominated security pact

Fortune

Putin’s budget faces 'catastrophe' after price cap spells doom for Russian oil exports

Nearly a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin risks a massive revenue shortfall as the price of each barrel of oil it can sell on the world market falls dramatically.

Reuters

Kremlin says West reacted 'cynically' to Christmas ceasefire

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Ukraine and the West had reacted "cynically" to a 36-hour ceasefire proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to mark Orthodox Christmas.

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