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Zelensky fires heads of military enlistment in all Ukrainian regions

President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Friday that the heads of all Ukraine's regional military recruitment centres were being dismissed from their jobs amid concerns about corruption. The mass sacking came as Ukraine urged civilians near the northeastern front line to evacuate on Thursday as Russia ramped up an assault to…

France 24

Kharkiv: Ukraine orders civilian evacuations amid ‘constant’ Russian shelling in north-east

Around 12,000 civilians in Kharkiv have been ordered to leave their homes amid fierce Russian shelling

Evening Standard

Ukraine forces have retaken land near Bakhmut from Russia, Kyiv says

Despite gains, deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar warns of ‘nightmare’ situation farther north in Kharkiv

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Moscow targets Kharkiv region in effort to regain ground from Ukrainians

Russia seeks to exploit situation as Kyiv’s counteroffensive concentrates on south and east of country

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war – live: Putin orders more drones as eight killed in missile attack on Donetsk

At least 31 people are believed to be injured following the attacks on an apartment complex in Donetsk

The Independent UK

War in Ukraine: Blood transfusion centre in Kharkiv hit by Russian attack as three killed

President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as a ‘war crime’ by ‘beasts’ after a night of intense shelling in Ukraine

The Independent UK

Russia-Ukraine war: Poland to deploy more border troops after Belarus ‘violates airspace’; ‘drone shot down in Crimea’ – as it happened

Belarus rejected claims it violated airspace as ‘far-fetched’; Moscow-installed governor of Crimea says ‘UAV shot down in the Kara-Koba region’

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Russia using ‘disinformation’ to exaggerate ‘small’ military gains in Ukraine, says UK

Russia has only achieved “marginal gains” during its assault along the north of the frontline in Luhansk and Kharkiv oblasts, British defence chiefs have said.

Evening Standard

Ukraine’s liberated town of Kupyansk endures Russian shelling, disinformation

As Ukraine’s counteroffensive makes slow progress in the south and southeast, it’s the Russians who’ve gone on the attack in the northeastern Kharkiv region. In recent days Russian forces have advanced by a kilometre or more towards the Ukrainian-held town of Kupyansk. FRANCE 24 correspondent Gulliver Cragg reports.

France 24

Kharkiv mayor dismisses Russian claims of ‘terrorism’ over Crimean bridge attack

‘How can they speak about terrorism?’ asked Ihor Terekhov, citing destruction visited on his city

The Guardian - UK

Russians bombard centre of Kharkiv hours after earlier fatal attack

Latest missile strike part of series of attacks that began at 2am on Sunday, with one dead and four wounded reported

The Guardian - UK

Stalin erased one generation of Ukraine’s artists. Now Putin is killing another – including my friend

An archive holding works by writers purged in the 1930s also hosted Victoria Amelina, lost to a Russian strike this summer, says Guardian culture writer Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 497 of the invasion

Russian strikes target military funeral in Kharkiv; Ukraine accuses Russia of planning ‘provocation’ at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

The Guardian - AU

‘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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‘Everything is still ahead’: inside a secret military base with top Ukraine general

Exclusive: Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi details his experience of war and suggests counteroffensive is just gearing up

WEKU

Up past curfew, the party lasts all night at a basement dance club in Ukraine

Despite more than a year of war in Ukraine, regular missile strikes and power outages, the party goes all night long at a basement club in Kharkiv.

The Guardian - UK

‘With help, we might survive’: Kyiv sees sharp rise in homeless people

Since Russia’s invasion, many more people on the streets that volunteers offering food and other help can’t keep up with demand

WEKU

Russian missile attack on Ukrainian president's hometown kills at least 6

At least six people were killed when Russian missiles hit civilian buildings in an overnight attack Tuesday in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, regional officials said.

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The Conversation

Ukraine diaries: almost a year on, a French ethnographer returns to document the war

I pack my bag, take batteries, cables and SD cards for my digital recorder. I ask for media accreditation from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence before leaving, on my return to the field for the third time since the Russian invasion, with the objective of documenting the war.

Daily Mirror

Huge poisonous cloud fills sky after Russia bombs chemical pipeline in Ukraine

Pro-Moscow sources have released footage of what they claim shows a crack in an ammonia pipeline, in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, triggering a scare poisonous gas might be being released

Reuters

Russian forces repeatedly shell ammonia pipeline in Ukraine's Kharkiv region -governor

Russian forces repeatedly fired at an ammonia pipeline in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, a local governor said on Tuesday, a conduit potentially crucial for the extension of a deal allowing the safe export of grains and fertilizers from Black Sea ports.

Al Jazeera

‘Dead zone’: How the Ukraine war moved inside Russia

The western Russian region of Belgorod that borders Ukraine has been shelled and attacked by drones hundreds of times.

ABC News

New evidence suggests Russia deliberately targeting schools in Ukraine

Despite their school being struck by a missile, those who remain of the class of 2023 in Kharkiv aren't letting a war rob them of their graduation celebrations.

ABC News

When Ukrainian forces liberated Kozacha Lopan, civilians emerged with tales of a Russian torture chamber beneath the village

In a basement in a Ukrainian village on the Russian border, the remnants of a torture chamber tell a horrifying tale. Those investigating what happened here say the depraved orders came from the top. WARNING: Readers might find the details in this story distressing.

The Independent UK

Staff at Ukraine's experimental nuclear site pick up pieces from Russian strikes

There is activity at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, but it’s not what scientists at this cutting-edge nuclear laboratory trained for

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