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The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Institute for Study of War says Russians unable to secure Kyiv attack positions – as it happened

Think tank says ‘increasingly static nature of the fighting reflects incapacity of Russian forces rather than any shift in Russian objectives or efforts’

The Guardian - AU

Russian strike killed 300 in Mariupol theater, Ukraine says

Ukrainian authorities say about 300 people were killed in the Russian airstrike last week that blasted open a Mariupol theater

The Independent UK

Latest Ukraine updates: Five wounded in Russian attack on Lviv

Ukraine war news from March 26: Regional governor Maksym Kozytsky says two missile attacks wounded at least five people.

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Russia claims focus now on seizing eastern Ukraine, not Kyiv

Russia's advance has stalled across most of the country after four weeks of war.

Axios

Russia signals it only wants to seize part of Ukraine

Kyiv (AFP) - Russia signaled Friday it may dial back its war aims to focus on eastern Ukraine after failing to break the nation's resistance in a month of fighting and attacks on civilians, including bombing a crowded theatre where officials now say up to 300 people died.

AFP

Ukraine Says 300 Died in Theater Attack, Hunger Grips Cities

About 300 people were killed in the Russian airstrike last week on a Mariupol theater that was being used as a shelter, Ukrainian authorities said Friday in what would make it the war's deadliest known attack on civilians yet. Meanwhile, Russian forces appear to have halted, at least for now,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian focus on ‘liberating’ Donbas hints at shift in strategy

Ukrainian resistance may mean that Russia is changing its strategy to more limited goals and focusing on Donbas.

Al Jazeera

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Russian army chief says war will focus on east Ukraine in first sign of scaling back

Russian army chief Sergey Rudskoy confirmed on Friday that the country will now focus its main war effort on the "complete liberation" of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region

Daily Mirror

UN says evidence of mass graves in Mariupol as Russia hints at scaled-back war

Russia says it will now focus on the ‘liberation of Donbas’

The Independent UK

As it happened: Russia signals scaled-back war aims with focus on Donbas

Moscow signalled on Friday it was scaling back its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists, while French President Emmanuel Macron announced that EU leaders have agreed for officials in Brussels to make joint gas purchases for the bloc as it struggles with high prices amid…

France 24

Latest Ukraine updates: Russia says first phase of war near end

Ukraine war news from March 25: Russian general says Moscow will push to fully capture eastern region of Donbas.

Al Jazeera

Who are Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion?

Far-right regiment emerged in 2014 in fight against pro-Russian rebels in Donbas

The Independent UK

Leaked dossier from Vladimir Putin's spin chief reveals 'heavy artillery' brainwashing

The brainwashing report from the Kremlin was leaked to the The Dossier Centre and offers an insight into the work behind Russia's ever-active propaganda machine

Daily Mirror

Siege of Mariupol: Why the Ukrainian port city has been targeted by Russia

Vladimir Putin’s troops have pounded Sea of Azov town with shells and created hellish conditions for inhabitants in pursuit of coastal land corridor linking Crimea with Donbas

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Zelensky Renews Offer of Putin Talks

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky renewed an offer of direct peace talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin late Monday, declaring the status of disputed territories could be up for debate and a possible referendum. Zelensky told local media that he was ready to meet Putin "in any format" to discuss…

France 24

Zelensky says 100,000 still trapped in Mariupol, facing ‘inhumane conditions’

In his latest video address Tuesday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said more than 7,000 people had escaped the besieged port city of Mariupol in the last 24 hours, but that nearly 100,000 remained trapped in “inhumane conditions” without food, water or medication as Russia’s bombardment continued. Read FRANCE 24’s coverage…

AFP

Ukraine's Zelensky says everything on table if Putin meets

Kyiv (AFP) - Ukrainian leader Volodymr Zelensky said all issues would be on the table if Russia's Vladimir Putin agreed to direct talks to end the war, including contested Crimea and Donbas, but he warned his country would be "destroyed" before it surrenders.

Axios

Putin's Plan B: Russia bombards cities as offensive stalls

Putin is shifting his tactics, and maybe his end-game, analysts say.

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The Guardian - UK

The power of the new Ukraine

How the country has transformed from a Russian client state to a would-be EU nation where liberals and nationalists have found common cause

France 24

Ukraine: Award-winning film 'Klondike' shows the toll of war on ordinary people

Ukrainian writer-director Maryna Er Gorbach and film critic Lisa Nesselson join Eve Jackson in the studio to discuss a timely tale that's all too real about a pregnant woman refusing to leave her home on the Ukraine-Russia border when faced with war. Er Gorbach's award-winning feature "Klondike" shows the toll…

The Conversation

On the 3rd anniversary of the Christchurch attack, the Ukraine crisis asks the West to rethink its definitions of terrorism

As the Russian invasion unfolds, a deep vein of Ukrainian nationalism – already irritated by the annexation of Crimea and a Russian-backed insurgency in the Donbas region – has been unleashed.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine’s foreign legion joins the battle against Russia

The Ukrainian government has called for volunteers to join its army. Will they make a difference?

The Guardian - UK

Is there any justification for Putin’s war?

Nato invasion, genocide and drug-addled neo-Nazi’s: we assess whether any of Russia’s claims are valid

The Hindu

Can Donbas republics work as a buffer zone?

Is the de facto states model followed for Abkhazia, Transnistria and South Ossetia a possible way out for the Russia-Ukraine conflict?

France 24

Ukraine facing 'economic strangulation' from war, former finance minister says

Ukraine's former finance minister has told FRANCE 24 that any company doing business with Russia is indirectly financing the war in Ukraine. Natalie Jaresko was in office from 2014 to 2016, when Russia annexed Crimea and conflict was raging in the eastern Donbas region. She described the current situation facing…

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