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The husband of decorated volunteer medic Yulia Pajevska who was abducted in mid-March shares his fears for her safety.

Confusion reigns over fighting at Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol as war shifts to grinding artillery duel

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Al Jazeera recaps key events of week 10 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Heavy fighting raged Thursday at the shattered steel plant in Mariupol as Russian forces sought to finish off the city’s last-ditch defenders and complete the capture of the strategically vital Ukrainian port. The bloody battle came amid growing suspicions that President Vladimir Putin wants to present the Russian people with…

Russia said it will hold daytime ceasefires for 3 days from this morning.

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

With the evacuation of some civilians from a sprawling steel mill besieged by Russian forces in the port of Mariupol, attention is turning to the fate of hundreds of Ukrainian troops still inside after weeks in the plant's warren of underground tunnels and bunkers