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The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Ukraine has not exhausted its ‘potential’ to attack, says Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said Ukraine had started its long-expected counteroffensive, but that Kyiv had so far failed to attain its goals. Speaking at a Eurasian Economic Union conference in the Russian resort town of Sochi, Putin maintained that Ukraine still has the potential to attack. Follow our…

France 24

Wagner mercenaries ‘withdraw from Bakhmut to focus on other battles in Donbas,’ says MoD

Wagner Group forces have begun to withdraw from the city of Bakhmut and will likely focus on other offensive operations in the Donbas region, according to British intelligence chiefs.

Evening Standard

Zest, shiny new jets, and a counter-offensive — is Bakhmut’s spring stalemate finally ending?

After a brutal 10-month slog that has killed tens of thousands on both sides, Ukrainian soldiers are striking back against Russian occupying forces in the Donbas. Tom Mutch reports from the frontline

Evening Standard

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Is NATO to blame for the Russo-Ukrainian war? It's complicated, explains historian Serhii Plokhy

A year after Russia’s all-out attack against its neighbour on February 24 2022, volumes trying to explain the conflict to the public begin to accumulate on my bookshelf. Think-tankers, political scientists and journalists have been at the forefront.

The Conversation

Why Bakhmut matters: As Russia claims victory, Ukraine insists it has momentum

How many lives have been lost so far in Bakhmut? And why? Russia claims to have fully captured the eastern Donbas city while Ukraine spins it as part of the plan, with its forces elsewhere gaining ground to the north and south.

France 24

Zelensky: Bakhmut will recover like Hiroshima did after atomic bomb

The Ukrainian president said the devastation in the destroyed Donbas city reminded him of pictures he had seen of Hiroshima after the nuclear attack.

The Independent UK

Key moments in the Battle of Bakhmut in Ukraine's east

The battle for the small city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region has become the longest and bloodiest of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Dreams shattered as war scatters Ukraine documentary’s teenage stars

Alisa Kovalenko had recorded the hopes and dreams of teenagers in the Donbas growing up with conflict rumbling in the background. Then full-scale war broke out

The Guardian - UK

Butterfly Vision review – grim drama about Ukrainian prisoners of the Donbas war

This film offers an unsparing view of how PoWs are treated when they return home – but it may not reflect the current mood

The Guardian - UK

'Very special' Brit volunteer fighter killed in Ukraine after a year on the frontline

Jay Morais, from Bristol, was on Ukraine’s frontline including in intensive street fighting in the Donbas cities of Severodonetsk and Bakhmut and has now died in Kharkiv

Daily Mirror

Putin 'celebrates 1945 victory while attacking Kyiv': Zelensky adviser Podolyak

In an interview with FRANCE 24, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin's Victory Day speech in Moscow on Tuesday, saying Putin celebrated the 1945 victory against the Nazis even while "attacking Kyiv", referring to a barrage of cruise missiles lobbed at the Ukrainian…

France 24

20,000 Russians killed in Ukraine invasion since December, says White House

US officials say Russian attempted offensive in Donbas ‘has failed’ and come at ‘terrible cost’

Evening Standard

Ukrainians who grew up speaking Russian learn a new mother tongue

For many, switching from Russian to the Ukrainian language is an act of resistance.

Al Jazeera

Russians pound frontline positions in Bakhmut, Ukraine military says

Russian forces pounded the city of Bakhmut, the months-old focal point of their attempts to capture the eastern Ukrainian industrial region of Donbas, and the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary force said Ukrainian troops were pouring in ahead of an "inevitable" counter-offensive.

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France 24

'Donbass Devushka': American mouthpiece for Russian propaganda on Ukraine

“Donbass Devushka” is a prominent social media account implicated in the recent leak of classified documents on the Ukraine war. The pro-Kremlin mouthpiece, which claims to be run by a Russian woman in the occupied city of Luhansk, is in fact run by a pro-Russian former US military officer.

The Guardian - UK

Iron People: Ukraine’s railway network in a time of war – photo essay

Documenting the drivers, railway workers and passengers on Europe’s third largest rail network during an extraordinary year in which Ukraine defied Russia’s plan to conquer the country

Crikey

Hope springs eternal in Ukraine

As Ukraine emerges from a brutal winter, its armed forces prepare for an apparent major counteroffensive as Russia suffers battlefield losses in Donbas, and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton licks his wounds after the crushing loss to Labor in Saturday’s Aston byelection in Victoria.

France 24

'If you stay, you will die': How one front-line volunteer is saving lives in Ukraine’s Donbas

Kuba Stasiak, a young volunteer from Poland, has helped evacuate an estimated 200 Ukrainian civilians from Bakhmut and other besieged cities in Ukraine. But volunteers like him face psychological hurdles as well as practical ones: How do you convince someone it is time to leave everything behind?

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine’s Top Soldier Says Situation in Embattled Bakhmut Is Stabilizing

Ukrainian forces have managed to blunt Russia's offensive in and around the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut, where the situation is stabilizing, commander in chief General Valery Zaluzhniy said on Saturday. Separately, Britain's defense ministry said the months-long Russian assault on the city had stalled, mainly as a result of…

Reuters

Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Putin says Moscow has deal with Belarus to station nuclear weapons there

Russia has struck a deal with neighbouring Belarus to station tactical nuclear weapons on its territory, Tass news agency quoted President Vladimir Putin as saying on Saturday.

The New Daily

Russians mount two-pronged attack as Ukraine claims Putin’s army is running out of steam

Russian forces are attacking northern and southern stretches of the front in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, even as Kyiv says Moscow's assault is

Reuters

Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Russia attacks along Ukraine front

Russian forces attacked northern and southern stretches of the front in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region on Friday, even as Kyiv said Moscow's assault was flagging near the city of Bakhmut.

Evening Standard

Russian forces make ‘creeping gains’ in Donbas as Putin warned ‘no time limit’ on war crime arrest warrant

Russian forces are making “creeping gains" in some Ukrainian-held areas of Donbas, British Defence Chiefs said on Monday, as a war crimes prosecutor warned there would be no time limit on an international arrest warrant issued for Vladimir Putin.

The Guardian - UK

Vladimir Putin pays surprise visit to occupied Mariupol in Ukraine

Russian president makes first trip to Donbas region since invasion, in show of defiance after ICC arrest warrant

The New Daily

Vladimir Putin makes surprise visit to Russian-occupied Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to the port of Mariupol, in his first trip to the Donbas region since the war began.

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