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Ukraine says war in east at 'maximum intensity'

Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine said Thursday the war in the east of the country had hit its fiercest level yet as it urged Western allies to match words with support against invading Russian forces.

AFP

Russian shelling kills at least four in Ukraine's Kharkiv - governor

At least four civilians were killed and several wounded in Russian shelling of the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine on Thursday, local authorities said.

Reuters

Putin Against History

How His War Has Erased Russia’s Past—And Endangered Its Future

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Russian Assault Targets Key Towns in Eastern Ukraine

Russian forces on Wednesday pounded the easternmost Ukrainian-held city in the Donbas region that is now the focus of the three-month war, threatening to shut off the last main escape route for civilians trapped in the path of their advance. After failing to seize Ukraine's capital Kyiv or its second…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine gathers Russian dead in chilled train for prisoner exchange

Ukraine is gathering the bodies of dead Russian soldiers strewn among the rubble of formerly occupied towns and using everything from DNA to tattoos to verify their identities in the hope of exchanging them for prisoners of war.

Reuters

After three months underground, Kharkiv residents move as metro reopens

Ukraine's second-largest city Kharkiv restarted its metro service on Tuesday and asked the hundreds of people who had used the underground as a bomb shelter for the last three months to free up the train carriages, but many said they were still too scared to return home.

Reuters

Too late to evacuate civilians in face of Russian attack, says Luhansk official

Sievierodonetsk under intense bombardment and surrounded on three sides by Russian forces

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VIDEO: War In Ukraine: Defending Troops Destroy Russian Tanks Hiding In Residents’ Gardens

Russian armored column attacks Zirkuni, a village in Kharkiv Oblast in northeastern Ukraine.

Zenger

Death lingers in Ukraine village liberated from Russian forces

Kim Sengupta finds residents in Vilkhivka burying the bodies of Putin’s soldiers as well as their own family and neighbours

The Independent UK

Ukrainian boy and his family leave cellar after 87 days for safety abroad

Tymofiy’s village near Kharkiv is ruined, but thanks to a Guardian-reading benefactor he is heading to Switzerland

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian man drives 3,700km to be reunited with parents and fiancee – who live just 10km away

Only a 10-minute drive apart but cut off by war, Serhi Belyaev took a perilous road trip to be with his loved ones again

The Guardian - UK

Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters fourth month

Russia heads into the fourth month of its invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday with no end in sight to the fighting that has killed thousands, uprooted millions and reduced cities to rubble.

Reuters

Kharkiv digs in against a new Russian assault

Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - New trenches, concrete blocks, sandbags and numerous checkpoints appear to be everywhere around Kharkiv, which has pushed back one Russian assault on Ukraine's second city, and is preparing to defend against another.

AFP

Vladimir Putin's forces are leaving a barbaric calling card as they withdraw from Ukrainian villages

Ukrainian forces pushed out Vladimir Putin's men from the eastern region of Kharkiv but, in the Russian military's wake, they found explosives hidden everywhere, from fields to a child's bedroom.

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'People die outside': Scores refuse to leave Ukrainian metro

Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Scores of people are camping out in the metro system of Ukraine's city of Kharkiv, still fearful of Russian shelling and refusing to renounce the discomforts despite Moscow's retreat from the area.

Reuters

One war, two worlds: Ukraine neighbours face shelling with defiance or despair

The only 10 residents left in the Commune, an apartment complex in the eastern Ukraine town of Slatyne, share the hardships of Russia’s invasion, from relentless shellfire and exploding rounds to a lack of power and running water.

The Independent UK

Inside the recaptured Ukrainian village still under attack from retreating Russian forces

Kim Sengupta visits a liberated flashpoint near Kharkiv that Putin’s forces won’t give up without ‘a hard and long fight’

Daily Record

Syrian refugee who fled Ukraine finally reunited with parents in Dumfries

Naeem Hijazi was a student in Kharkiv at the time the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in March

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WEKU

Kharkiv's mayor says it's time to move out of the city's subway stations

As Ukrainian troops push Russian forces away from its second-largest city, the mayor urges thousands of residents to emerge from their makeshift shelters in the city's metro stations and trains.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin suspends two generals after Kharkiv failure and sinking of Moskva

Vladimir Putin has suspended two senior commanders over Russia's failure to capture Kharkiv and the sinking of Black Sea Fleet flagship Moskva, during the Ukraine invasion, according to British intelligence

Al Jazeera

Timeline: Week 12 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 12 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Independent UK

The Battle for Kharkiv: How Ukraine’s second city was reclaimed from Russian forces

Kim Sengupta reports from a city that might have welcomed Russian invaders but instead drove them out in a determined campaign

AFP

Ukraine street artist Gamlet 'under orders' to paint Kharkiv

Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - A black bulletproof vest bearing a Ukrainian military crest, a tourniquet and two felt-tip pens make up street artist Gamlet Zinkivsky's unpretentious work equipment.

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine relinquishes Mariupol as Russia attacks both east and west

LVIV, Ukraine — With full control of the beleaguered port city of Mariupol in hand, Russian forces kept up their assault Tuesday on eastern Ukraine, now the focus of a grinding conflict that bears the hallmarks of a grim war of attrition.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Fear and Hope under Fire in Ukrainian Village near Russian Border

Waving his arms in a state of agitation, a man asks Ukrainian soldiers if he can safely cross the remains of a destroyed bridge in the village of Ruska Lozova near the Russian border. The village, about 18 kilometers (11 miles) from the frontier and just north of Ukraine's second…

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