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100 days of war take a heavy toll on Ukraine as Putin’s forces hammer Donbas

Families have been torn apart and villages, towns and even cities turned into piles of rubble by the Russian invasion. Kim Sengupta reports from the Donbas where the conflict is intensifying

The Independent UK

Russia controls 20 per cent of Ukraine, Zelenskyy says, as US targets yachts linked to Putin

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia currently occupies about 20 per cent of Ukraine’s territory, as Russian forces continue to pound towns and cities, tightening their grip on Luhansk province.

ABC News

Russia attacks village on strategic road in east Ukraine - general

Russian forces are trying to assault the east Ukrainian village of Berestove that lies on a main road linking the Luhansk region's city of Lysychansk to the rest of Ukraine, a Ukrainian general said on Thursday.

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Ukraine's Zelenskiy eyes 'inflection point' in war as Russia tightens grip on key target

Russia tightened its grip on a key target in a battle for control of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region while President Volodymir Zelenskiy pleaded for more Western arms to help Ukraine reach an "inflection point" and prevail in the war.

Reuters

Poisonous nitric acid cloud spews orange fumes into sky from Russian airstrike

Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai said the explosion was caused by a Russian airstrike while the Kremlin said it was Ukrainian forces that hit the nitric acid tank - footage was captured by a Ukrainian soldier

Daily Mirror

Luhansk governor says Russia now controls 70% of Sievierodonetsk

Fighting continues in key eastern city as Volodymyr Zelenskiy says up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers dying each day

The Guardian - UK

Live updates | Ukraine reports battle gains and challenges

A regional governor in southern Ukraine says Russian troops are retreating and blowing up bridges to obstruct a possible Ukrainian advance

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Governor of Ukraine's Luhansk region says Russia controls 70% of Sievierodonetsk

Russian forces are now in control of around 70% of Sievierodonetsk, a strategically important city in Ukraine's east, Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Gaidai said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Russian forces close in on takeover of eastern Ukrainian province

DNIPRO, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces desperately tried to block a complete Russian takeover of one of the country’s two eastern provinces Tuesday, with Russian troops clawing out incremental gains even as European leaders agreed to a partial oil embargo aimed at starving Moscow’s mammoth war machine.

Los Angeles Times

Russian forces close in on takeover of eastern Ukrainian province

Los Angeles Times

Russian forces control most of Sievierodonetsk, says Ukraine regional governor

Russian forces now control most of the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk but have not surrounded it, the governor of Ukraine's Luhansk province said on Tuesday after days of fighting.

Reuters

Sievierodonetsk mayor says Russia destroying city ‘block by block’

Heavy street fighting continues and airstrikes threaten the lives of the estimated 13,000 civilians still trapped behind

The Independent UK

Russian troops slowly advancing towards centre of Sievierodonetsk - governor

Russian troops are slowly advancing towards the centre of the city of Sievierodonetsk in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, regional governor Serhiy Gaidai told Ukrainian state television on Tuesday.

Reuters

Russian forces now control 'most' of Severodonetsk, local governor says

Russian forces now control "most" of the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk after days of fierce fighting, the regional governor of Luhansk said Tuesday. Governor Sergiy Gaiday said "90 percent" of the city was destroyed and there was now no possibility of leaving Severodonetsk. Read our live blog to see…

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Daily Mirror

French journalist killed while being evacuated during Russia shelling attack

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Regional governor of Luhansk Serhiy Gaidai said an accredited French journalist was killed when shrapnel from a Russian shell ripped through the armoured transport vehicle he was being evacuated in

Reuters

Kremlin eyes political prize in rubble of Ukraine's Sievierodonetsk

The capture of a sleepy Soviet-era factory town in Ukraine's industrial heartland has become the focus of Russia's invasion as President Vladimir Putin seeks to rebuild momentum after a failed attempt to take the capital Kyiv.

ABC News

Russian troops enter Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk as Ukraine fights to maintain control of strategic city

Shelling has killed two civilians and wounded five others as Russian troops advanced into the city's fringes, Luhansk region Governor Serhiy Gaidai says, with Ukraine determined to slow an offensive across the Donbas region.

Evening Standard

The West has a month to decide whether to save Ukraine from Vladimir Putin

Britain and its Nato partners, the USA included, have less than a month to decide on how deeply they are prepared to commit to saving Ukraine as a viable independent nation. Ukraine’s forces are now locked in a battle for survival in the Luhansk oblast of the Donbas region, which…

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Al Jazeera

‘Enemy moving in’: Fierce battle as Russian troops storm key city

An estimated 15,000 civilians in Severodonetsk remain trapped by heavy fighting amid a constant barrage of artillery.

The Independent UK

Russian troops entering Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine

The Russian-battered eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk appeared to be on the brink of becoming another Mariupol on Monday as services and aid have been cut and Moscow seeks to capture all of Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region

Asharq Al-Awsat

Heavy Fighting as Russian Troops Enter Outskirts of Sievierodonetsk

Russian troops have entered the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, the regional governor said on Monday, describing "very fierce" fighting in the ruins of a city that has become the focus of Moscow's offensive. Russia has concentrated its firepower on the last major population center still held by…

Reuters

Two civilians killed as Russian troops enter Sievierodonetsk - governor

Two civilians were killed and five wounded by shelling as Russian troops entered the outskirts of the Ukrainian city Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk region governor Serhiy Gaidai said on Monday.

The Independent UK

Ukraine news – live: Putin ‘loses two more colonels including top paratrooper’

Russian fighters starting to move into key strategic city of Sievierodonetsk, says region’s governor

Daily Mirror

Russian death squads target top Ukrainian officials reminiscent of 'Red Terror'

Regional leaders are constantly on the move to avoid death squads, the police chief in the Luhansk part of the Donbas region revealed

Evening Standard

Russian forces intensify assault in Luhansk amid Putin’s push to seize Donbas

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has described the situation in the Donbas as ‘indescribably difficult’

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