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Ukraine-Russia war – live: Putin sees 200 armoured vehicles wiped out in Donbas battles

Russian hardware destroyed in Avdiivka likely due to Ukraine’s modern hand-held anti-armour weapons and other equipment

The Independent UK

Russia-Ukraine war: undersea telecoms cable between Sweden and Estonia damaged by ‘external force’ – as it happened

Swedish minister said the damage to a telecommunications cable earlier in October was through external ‘tampering’

The Guardian - AU

‘Donetsk was a ghost city’: Shakhtar youth coach’s unique tale of endurance

In this extract from his new book, Andy Brassell talks to Miguel Cardoso, who carried on coaching academy players in Ukraine during the war in Donbas

The Guardian - UK

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Klondike review – Ukrainian-Russian couple face war on their doorstep

An expectant husband-and-wife’s lives are shattered when their home in Donbas is hit by a bomb in Maryna Er Gorbach’s powerful drama

The Guardian - UK

Prigozhin has made plenty of enemies – including Putin. This is the result

Reports of the Wagner founder being in a deadly jet crash should suprise nobody in the wake of his failed mutiny against the Russian president. Kim Sengupta speaks to Ukranian troops fighting against Moscow’s forces in eastern Donbas – who believe it would mark a fitting end

The Independent UK

Militia units commanded by Russia named in Izium abuse investigation

Exclusive: Four units from Donbas ‘people’s republics’ allegedly abused civilians in Ukrainian city where mass grave was found

The Guardian - UK

‘Some never came back’: how Russians hunted down veterans of Donbas conflict

Exclusive: Ukrainians who fought against separatists tell of kidnap and torture by invaders; the fate of hundreds of others is a mystery

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Wagner chief accuses Moscow of lying to public about Ukraine

Yevgeny Prigozhin dismisses justification for war that Kyiv was planning 2022 attack on Donbas and Crimea

The Guardian - UK

In Kyiv, South African president calls on Russia and Ukraine to ‘de-escalate’ conflict

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday called on both Ukraine and Russia to de-escalate their conflict in order to “settle” the war in Ukraine. Ramaphosa is one of a group of African leaders that arrived in the Ukrainian capital earlier on Friday as air raid sirens sounded and explosions…

France 24

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

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.

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The Independent UK

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.

Reuters

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.

The Guardian - UK

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

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Daily Mirror

'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

France 24

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…

Evening Standard

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’

Al Jazeera

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.

Reuters

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.

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

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