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Buoyed by southern success, Ukraine revives long-shot dream of retaking Crimea

ODESA, Ukraine — Beneath a chill, low-lying fog, the Black Sea has gone winter-gray. The craggy coast of Crimea, illegally seized from Ukraine by Russia nearly nine years ago, lies far from this southern stretch of seashore — yet, to many here, the strategic peninsula suddenly seems tantalizingly close.

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine capital Kyiv, port Odesa area suffer power shortages -Zelenskiy

Ukraine's capital Kyiv, the area around the Black Sea port of Odesa and more than a dozen other regions are grappling with power shortages following relentless Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday.

Reuters

Russian Missiles Pound Ukraine Power Supply, Fighting Rages in East

Missiles rained down on Ukrainian energy facilities on Thursday, as Russian forces stepped up attacks in eastern Ukraine, reinforced by troops pulled from Kherson city in the south which Kyiv recaptured last week. Explosions resounded in cities including the capital Kyiv, the southern port of Odesa, the central city of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Official: Russian missile strike hits Ukraine's Odesa region

A Ukrainian regional governor says a Russian missile strike has hit Ukraine’s southern Odesa region for the first time in weeks

The Independent UK

Ukraine ships out record tonnage of grain despite Russia spurning scheme

Large convoy of vessels sets sail from Odesa as Moscow warns doing so without its approval is ‘risky’

The Guardian - UK

Turkey, UN try to save Ukraine grain export deal as Russia quits

Turkey, the United Nations and others looked for ways to salvage the Ukrainian grain export initiative after Moscow said it would pull out indefinitely following an attack on its Black Sea naval fleet.

Tribune News Service

Lord Mayor vows to do Ukraine proud after 'bittersweet' Eurovision win

Cllr Roy Gladden has written to the Mayor of Odesa

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Kyiv hit by Iranian drones as Russia targets dozens of Ukrainian cities

Ukraine’s Air Force shot down six Iranian drones overnight in the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions.

Axios

Ukraine MP brands Liverpool the 'capital of pop' and says it will feel like 'Odesa is hosting too'

Liverpool will host next year's event on behalf of Ukraine

Liverpool Echo

PM and past winners congratulate Liverpool as it is named Eurovision host city

The city that produced The Beatles fended off competition from Glasgow during the final stage of the selection process.

The Independent UK

Ukraine's liberation of Russian-occupied territories allows families to reunite and encourages businesses to reopen

As Ukraine continues to make battleground gains, locals are being reunited with loved ones from liberated cities and, in some parts of the country, people are returning home and reopening businesses. This is what life looks like on the ground.

ABC News

Iran’s drones are cheap, plentiful and helping Russia in Ukraine

After months of being hammered on Ukraine’s battlefields by U.S. kamikaze drones and longer range rocket systems, Russia is striking back with a new capability if its own, attacking the southern port city of Odesa almost daily with winged missiles from Iran.

Tribune News Service

Russia steps up attacks with Iranian drones, Ukraine plans defences - officials

Ukraine's president and security chiefs met on Monday to plan ways to counteract Russia's use of "new types of weapons" after Moscow stepped up attacks in Odesa region using Iranian combat drones, the president's office and a regional official said.

Reuters

Drone attack hits Ukraine; US vows 'consequences' over nukes

An overnight drone strike near the Ukrainian port of Odesa has sparked a massive fire and explosion, hours after the United States vowed to take decisive action and promised “catastrophic consequences” if Russia uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine

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Ukraine military says Russian drones hit military objects in Odesa

Two drones launched by Russian forces into the Odesa region in Ukraine hit military objects causing a fire and the detonation of ammunition, the South command of Ukraine's forces said on Monday.

The Independent UK

Simon Coveney on visit to Ukraine to show Ireland’s support

Mr Coveney will visit Odesa port in southern Ukraine to see the operation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative.

Reuters

Ukraine seeks to trace thousands of 'orphans' scattered by war

Ukraine says it dismissed nearly 100,000 children from institutional care. With help from U.N. child agency UNICEF, it is still trying to reach some 26,000 of them.

Reuters

UNESCO supports Ukraine bid to put Odesa on World Heritage list

United Nations cultural agency UNESCO said on Tuesday it supported a bid by Ukraine to put its port city of Odesa on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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Zenger

Ukrainian Navy Destroys Massive Russian Drifting Anti-Ship Mines

“The Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to detect and neutralize drifting Russian mines in the Black Sea.”

France 24

Zelensky warns of 'vicious' Russian attacks ahead of Ukraine's independence day

Artillery shells rained down on a city close to Europe's biggest nuclear plant overnight and Russian missiles hit targets near Odesa on Sunday as the war headed for its six-month milestone, with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warning that Moscow might attempt "something particularly ugly" in the run-up to the country's…

Radio France Internationale

UN chief Guterres visits Odesa, calls for full access to Ukrainian grain

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says more needs to be done to ensure full global access to Ukrainian food products and Russian food and fertilisers on a visit to the Black Sea port of Odesa.

France 24

Putin, Macron agree on need for IAEA inspection of Ukraine nuclear plant

Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday agreed on the need to send a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, according to the French presidential office. In a phone conversation, the two leaders also agreed to…

Reuters

Turkey says four more grain ships leave Ukrainian ports

Four more ships have left Ukrainian ports carrying sunflower meal, sunflower oil and corn, from Chornomorsk and Odesa ports, under a U.N.-brokered grain export deal, Turkey's defence ministry said on Wednesday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Chief to Meet Zelenskiy, Erdogan in Ukraine on Thursday

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Ukraine on Thursday, a UN spokesman said, and on Friday visit the Black Sea port of Odesa, where grain exports have resumed under a UN-brokered deal. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday that…

Reuters

U.N. chief to meet Zelenskiy, Erdogan in Ukraine on Thursday

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Ukraine on Thursday, a U.N. spokesman said, and on Friday visit the Black Sea port of Odesa, where grain exports have resumed under a U.N.-brokered deal.

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