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Ukrainian prisoners of war held in the Russian-backed self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics number about 8,000, Luhansk official Rodion Miroshnik was quoted by TASS news agency as saying on Thursday.

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 13 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of waging "total war," seeking to inflict as much death and destruction as possible as in three months of conflict, as fighting raged Tuesday in the eastern Donbas region. Russian forces have intensified efforts to encircle and capture Sievierodonetsk and neighboring cities, the only…

President gives insight into country’s casualties, as Luhansk governor says Russia using ‘scorched-earth’ tactics

Luhansk governor accuses Russia of indiscriminately shelling Severodonetsk, which has only one working hospital left.

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Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow as Russia stepped up its attack in the eastern and southern parts of the country, pounding the Donbas and Mykolaiv regions with air strikes and artillery fire.

An end to the conflict can only be reached ‘at the negotiating table’, the Ukrainian president says