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The Latest Breaking News from Sievierodonetsk

Ukraine news – live: Russian airstrikes hit Kyiv in ‘symbolic’ attack as G7 summit starts

Multiple air strikes have hit Ukraine as EU leaders gathered in Germany for the international G7 summit

The Independent UK

Ukrainian forces to withdraw from eastern city of Sievierodonetsk

The last Ukrainian troops holding out in a desperate battle for the city of Sievierodonetsk are ordered to withdraw, but analysts say it is not a major strategic victory for Moscow.

ABC News

Analysis-Russia's grinding battlefield gains seen driven by new tactics

It took Russia weeks of fierce fighting, an untold number of casualties, and relentless shelling before the exhausted Ukrainian defenders of Sievierodonetsk received orders to quit its smouldering wreckage.

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Ukraine troops ‘to be withdrawn’ from key city of Sievierodonetsk as street battles rage

The ‘fate of the Donbas is being decided’ say Ukraine officials

The Independent UK

First Thing: Bipartisan bill clears way for bolstering US gun laws

$13bn package represents a compromise between Democrat and Republican lawmakers. Plus, Ukrainian forces to leave Sievierodonetsk

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian Army to Leave Battered City to Avoid Encirclement

After weeks of ferocious fighting, Ukrainian forces will retreat from a besieged city in the country's east to avoid encirclement, a regional governor said Friday. The city of Sievierodonetsk, the administrative center of the Luhansk region, has faced relentless Russian bombardment.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukrainian forces will have to leave embattled Sievierodonetsk -governor

Ukrainian troops will "have to be withdrawn" from the mostly Russian-occupied battleground city of Sievierodonetsk, the regional governor said on television on Friday.

Reuters

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Goat wounds Russian soldiers after animal wandered into middle of battle zone

The Russian soldiers had also placed grenades around the outside of a Ukrainian hospital with tripwires installed in a circle as a means of defence - but a stray goat triggered tripwires and injured troops

Daily Mirror

Britain says Russia boosts pressure in advance on Ukraine's Lysychansk

Russian forces advancing towards the Ukrainian city of Lysychansk are putting increasing pressure on the surrounding region, including the twin city of Sievierodonetsk, Britain's defence ministry said on Thursday.

Reuters

Russian forces capture two settlements near Ukraine's Lysychansk

Russian forces have captured the settlements of Loskutivka and Rai-Oleksandrivka south of Ukraine's cities of Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk, which are the focus of the Russian offensive in the region, Luhansk governor Serhiy Gaidai said on Thursday.

Reuters

Ukraine becomes EU membership candidate as Donbas battles reach 'fearsome climax'

Ukraine became a candidate to join the European Union on Thursday, a bold geopolitical step triggered by Russia's invasion that Kyiv and Brussels hailed as an "historic moment".

Reuters

Russia bears down on Lysychansk, targeting police and judicial buildings

Moscow’s troops move on to city neighbouring Sievierodonetsk, after capturing all but chemical plant there

The Guardian - UK

Finland’s armed forces chief says his country is prepared for a Russian attack and ready to fight – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 119 of the invasion

Ukraine launches airstrikes on Snake Island; Russians reportedly capture settlements near Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk

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Reuters

Ukraine's Zelenskiy looks to EU offer as Russia pounds cities

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday hailed the European Union's expected offer of candidate status for his battle-weary nation, as Russian forces pounded Ukraine's second-biggest city Kharkiv and the eastern Donbas region.

Reuters

Russian forces capture several more settlements in Ukraine's Luhansk region

Russian forces have captured several settlements near the embattled cities of Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk in the Luhansk region, the regional governor and Ukraine's general staff said on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

‘The Russians are not far away’: Inside the town braced for the coming storm of Putin’s forces

In the frontline town, Kim Sengupta finds residents – and pets – braced for Russia’s advancing troops

The Guardian - UK

Eastern Donbas ‘extremely difficult’ for Ukrainians as Russia intensifies attacks

Luhansk governor says 568 civilians are holed up in chemical plant and Lysychansk being shelled ‘en masse’

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Moscow fumes over Lithuania rail ban to Russian region

(This June 21 story corrects in paragraph 4 to show gas flows via Ukraine and Nord Stream 1 pipeline have fallen, removes reference to Russia cutting flows via Ukraine as act of retaliation)

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian missiles hit Black Sea gas platforms, say Russian officials

Reports of strikes come as Russia’s forces said to be gathering for final assault on Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk

The Independent UK

'It's just hell there': Russia still pounds eastern Ukraine

Russia’s military machine is persevering in its ferocious effort to grind down Ukraine’s defenses

Reuters

Russian-backed separatists report control of village south of key Ukraine battle

Russian-backed separatist forces in Ukraine said on Monday they had taken a village beside the main southern road towards the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, over which Russian and Ukrainian forces have been fighting for weeks.

Reuters

Russia intensifies attacks on key cities in eastern Ukraine, seizes territory

Russian forces captured territory along a frontline river in eastern Ukraine and intensified pressure on two key cities on Monday, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy predicted Moscow would escalate attacks ahead of an EU summit expected to welcome Kyiv's bid to join the bloc.

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war could last for years, say western leaders

Nato secretary general says Kyiv will need long-term military support as Russia masses reserves outside Sievierodonetsk

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine’s forces remain on the defensive in the eastern Donbas region – as it happened

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