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Factbox-What do we know about the Ukrainian New Year's Eve attack on Russian troops?

A Ukrainian missile strike on Jan. 1 against a vocational school in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region of Ukraine housing mobilised Russian troops has become one of the bloodiest incidents of Russia's nearly year-long war in Ukraine.

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Vladimir Putin’s forces facing struggle for key town of Bakhmut, say UK defence chiefs

The town in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine has become a focal point of the war

Evening Standard

Ukraine news – live: Russia blames deaths of 89 troops on unauthorised use of phones

Putin’s war leaders are criminally liable, says Moscow politician

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Eastern Ukraine ice arena destroyed in Russian attack, hockey federation says

A Russian missile attack destroyed an ice arena in the town of Druzhkivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region on Monday, the Ukrainian ice hockey federation said, after earlier reports of a missile hitting the town and injuring two people.

Reuters

Russians furious at commanders over Ukrainian rocket strike that killed scores

Russian nationalists and some lawmakers have demanded punishment for commanders they accused of ignoring dangers as anger grew over the killing of dozens of Russian soldiers in one of the deadliest strikes of the Ukraine conflict.

Reuters

Scores of Russian troops killed in Ukraine missile strike – one of deadliest attacks against Putin’s forces

Kyiv claims 400 troops were killed in attack as Moscow makes rare admission of large-scale fatalities

The Independent UK

Russia says 63 soldiers were killed in a Ukrainian attack

The attack was one of the deadliest strikes on the Kremlin's forces since the start of the war 10 months ago. Ukraine claimed to have killed hundreds of Russian conscripts, but details are murky.

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Kyiv claims hundreds of Russian soldiers killed in Donetsk missile strike

The New Year’s Eve attack on Russian troops in Makiivka could be Moscow’s largest single loss of life in the war in Ukraine

Evening Standard

Russia plans protracted drone campaign to exhaust Ukraine, Zelensky says

Russia is planning a lengthy campaign of attacks with Iranian drones to exhaust Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday, adding that the country had to “do everything” to resist. Earlier on Monday Ukraine's military took responsibility for a deadly attack on temporary accommodation for Russian soldiers in the city…

France 24

Russia says 63 soldiers killed by Ukrainian strike in Donetsk region

Russia said on Monday that 63 Russian soldiers had been killed in a Ukrainian New Year's Eve attack on their quarters, triggering furious criticism of the military leadership from lawmakers and pro-war bloggers.

Reuters

Defiant Ukrainians cheer New Year as drones blasted from skies

Ukrainians cheered from their balconies while their air defences blasted Russian missiles and drones out of the sky in the first hours of 2023, as Moscow saw in the new year by attacking civilian targets across Ukraine.

Reuters

Russia’s former deputy prime minister injured in shelling of Ukraine hotel

Dmitry Rogozin was advising Kremlin-backed troops in occupied region, Russian media says

The Independent UK

Zelensky’s US visit shows Ukraine is not ‘striving for peace’, claims Russia

New US missiles ‘will only drag out the conflict’ says Putin

The Independent UK

Former Russian deputy PM wounded by shelling in Donetsk

Dmitry Rogozin says he was struck by shrapnel during an attack on a hotel in eastern Ukraine.

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Russia's top military officer says Ukraine front stable, most forces concentrated on Donetsk

Russia's Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov said on Thursday that the frontline in Ukraine was stable, and that Russia had concentrated its forces on "completing the liberation" of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin’s pal ‘Mr Hypersonic’ injured in deadly strike on his birthday party

Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's former deputy prime minister, was hit in the head, thigh and buttocks by shrapnel in Ukrainian shelling which killed two and wounded a total of six in Donetsk

Al Jazeera

Ukraine expects key offensive as Russia plans to expand army

The war is poised to escalate as Russia has planned new conscription and Ukraine’s allies have lifted weapons bans.

Reuters

Ukraine shelling attack injures two top pro-Russia officials in Donetsk - agencies

A former Russian deputy prime minister and a pro-Moscow official were injured when Ukrainian forces shelled the eastern city of Donetsk on Wednesday, Russian news agencies said.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Kremlin: More US Arms to Ukraine Will Aggravate War

The Kremlin warned Wednesday that increasing the supply of US arms to Kyiv would aggravate the devastating 10-month war ignited by Russia's illegal invasion and "does not bode well" for embattled Ukraine. "Weapon supplies (by the US) continue, the assortment of supplied weapons is expanding. All this, of course, leads…

The Independent UK

Kremlin warning: More US arms to Ukraine will aggravate war

The Kremlin is warning that increasing the supply of U.S. arms to Kyiv will aggravate the devastating 10-month war ignited by Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine

Reuters

Invoking World War Two, Zelenskiy tells Congress aid is not charity

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the U.S. Congress on Wednesday that aid to Ukraine is an investment in democracy, not charity, and invoked American victory over the Nazis in a key World War Two battle to press for continued assistance.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Zelenskyy Visits Front Line, Putin Praises Troops in Kremlin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the eastern city of Bakhmut, the scene of some of the most intense combat since Russia invaded the country, meeting Tuesday with troops and praising their "courage, resilience and strength" as artillery boomed in the background. Russian President Vladimir Putin also hailed the "courage and…

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin ADMITS to failures in illegally annexed Ukraine calling war 'difficult'

In September, Vladimir Putin annexed four territories - Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia - as part of an illegal land grab of 15 per cent of Ukraine's lands

The Independent UK

Russia Ukraine news - live: Zelensky visits frontline as Putin says fighting ‘extremely difficult’

Zelensky met with troops and handed out awards as the war continues on

WEKU

The Ukraine war isn't new. These intimate photos show 3 families enduring it for years

A photographer and writer follow Ukrainian families whose lives have been upended by conflict since 2014. Their stories show an enduring will to live, even as war rages on around them.

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