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The Latest Breaking News from Severodonetsk

Ukraine forced to cede key battleground city

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukrainian forces prepared Friday to retreat from the strategic city of Severodonetsk after weeks of fierce fighting, a setback that could pave the way for Russia to seize a larger swath of eastern Ukraine.

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What does Russia’s capture of Severodonetsk mean for Ukraine?

Ukrainian forces are retreating from the eastern city after weeks of fierce fighting.

Al Jazeera

Ukrainian troops to retreat from besieged city of Severodonetsk

BEIRUT — A monthslong defense that saw Ukrainian troops endure relentless bombardment and ferocious street skirmishes against their Russian adversaries ended Friday when military authorities ordered a retreat from the besieged city of Severodonetsk.

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Ukraine forces to retreat from battleground city

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukrainian forces will retreat from Severodonetsk after weeks of fierce fighting over the key city, a senior Ukrainian official said Friday, in a major boost to Russia's goal of seizing a swathe of eastern Ukraine.

AFP

Ukraine forces to retreat from embattled Severodonetsk: Governor

Local governor says troops have received order to leave the city after weeks of fighting against Russian troops.

Al Jazeera

Severodonetsk: Ukrainian forces must retreat from key eastern city, says governor

Ukrainian troops will "have to be withdrawn" from the mostly Russian-occupied battleground city of Severodonetsk, the regional governor said on Friday.

Evening Standard

Ukraine forces to retreat from battleground city: governor

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukrainian forces will retreat from Severodonetsk in the face of a brutal Russian offensive that is reducing the battleground eastern city to rubble, a senior Ukrainian official said Friday.

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Ukrainian troops to withdraw from key city Severodonetsk, regional governor says

"Defenders of Severodonetsk will leave the city for new, more fortified positions," local leader says.

Axios

EU Grants Ukraine Candidate Status as Fighting Rages in East

EU leaders granted "candidate status" to Ukraine in its bid to join the bloc, as tensions deepened over Russian gas supplies and Moscow's forces closed in on key cities.

Asharq Al-Awsat

EU grants Ukraine candidate status as fighting rages in east

Brussels (AFP) - EU leaders granted "candidate status" to Ukraine in its bid to join the bloc, as tensions deepened over Russian gas supplies and Moscow's forces closed in on key cities.

AFP

Ukraine calls for arms as fight for Luhansk at ‘fearful climax’

Russia captures more villages south of Severodonetsk while all of Lysychansk is now within the reach of Russian fire.

Al Jazeera

Vladimir Putin’s forces advance on key city but bid to encircle swathe of east Ukraine stalled

Vladimir Putin’s troops have advanced around three miles in recent days in their battle for a key city but his broader aim of encircling a swathe of eastern Ukraine remains “stalled,” British defence chiefs said on Thursday.

Evening Standard

EU Debates Ukraine Candidacy as Russia Makes Life 'Hell' in East

EU leaders will gather in Brussels Thursday to discuss calls to formally grant war-torn Ukraine "candidate status" to join the bloc, as Russian forces slowly advance in the eastern Donbas region despite fierce resistance from Kyiv's military. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had been conducting a "telephone marathon" on…

Asharq Al-Awsat

EU debates Ukraine candidacy as Russia makes life 'hell' in east

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - EU leaders will gather in Brussels Thursday to discuss calls to formally grant war-torn Ukraine "candidate status" to join the bloc, as Russian forces slowly advance in the eastern Donbas region despite fierce resistance from Kyiv's military.

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In eastern Ukraine, some stand against their defenders

LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine — In Russian, the word "molodetz" roughly translates to "good job" or "bravo," and that's what 75-year-old Leonid was saying as he pointed at the Russian artillery's handiwork — the wreckage of a bombed-out building in a central street of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Russian forces seize frontline Donbas village: Ukrainian official

Head of the Severodonetsk district military administration says Toshkivka is now ‘controlled entirely by the Russians’.

AFP

Ukraine says attacks escalating, as Russia-EU tensions rise

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russia's blockade of Ukrainian grain exports sparked fresh tensions with Europe as fears grow of a global food crisis, while Kyiv accused Moscow of stepping up attacks in the east of the country.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine Says Attacks Escalating, as Russia-EU Tensions Surge

Russia's blockade of Ukrainian grain exports sparked fresh tensions with Europe as fears grow of a global food crisis, while Kyiv accused Moscow of stepping up attacks in the east of the country. In New York, Dmitry Muratov, the Russian editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, auctioned off his…

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AFP

Ukraine says attacks escalating, as Russia-EU tensions surge

AFP

Kyiv braces for heavier fighting as Russia-EU tensions climb

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Moscow's blockade of Ukrainian grain exports and a rail transit row sparked fresh tensions between Russia and the European Union on Monday, as Kyiv warned that Russian troops were intensifying their battle for control of eastern Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine latest updates: Russians at Severodonetsk industry zone

Ukraine news from June 20: Russian troops enter Severodonetsk industrial zone, according to Luhansk’s regional governor.

Al Jazeera

Russia advances in battle for key eastern Ukraine city

Moscow claims its forces have taken control of a village near the industrial city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.

AFP

Ukraine war could last 'years', NATO chief warns

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - NATO's chief warned that the war in Ukraine could last "for years" as President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Sunday that his forces would not give up the south of the country to Russia after his first visit to the frontline there.

AFP

Zelensky vows to retake south, NATO warns of long war

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Sunday that his forces "will not give away the south to anyone" after his first visit to the southern frontline, as NATO's chief warned the war in Ukraine could last "for years".

AFP

'We prepare for worst', says governor of Ukraine frontline region

Lysychansk (Ukraine) (AFP) - The governor of the eastern Ukrainian region now seeing heavy fighting with Russia, Sergiy Gaiday, opened the pockets of his flack jacket Saturday to show gun cartridges and a tourniquet.

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