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The Latest Breaking News from Ukrainian Armed Forces

Ukraine army retreats from part of strategic Chasiv Yar as Russia advances

Fall of key Donetsk town, prized for elevated position, would bring Russia one step closer to seizing entire region.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine claims Russia is planning to attack Europe's biggest nuclear station TONIGHT

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station has been controlled by Russian troops for more than a year and now Ukraine has claimed the largest power plant in Europe could come under fresh attack

Daily Mirror

Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine taking significant casualties and making slow progress towards Russian defence, say western officials – as it happened

Counteroffensive is still ‘going in the right direction’ says officials, in one of west’s first assessments of Ukrainian action launched on 4 June

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Ireland’s offer to train Ukrainian soldiers is ‘modest’ and necessary – Martin

The Irish government agreed for up to 30 Defence Forces personnel to provide training to Ukrainian armed forces.

The Independent UK

Putin’s spring offensive in Ukraine set to ‘fail in bloody fashion,’ says ex-head of British Army Lord Dannatt

Lord Dannatt believes Ukrainian armed forces, supplied with heavy weapons from West, will be ready to launch counter-offensive as Putin’s troops are ‘reeling’ from battlefield setbacks

Evening Standard

Russia claims control of Blahodatne north of Ukraine's Bakhmut

Russia said on Tuesday that its forces had taken control of Blahodatne, a village just north of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, where some of the heaviest fighting of the war has taken place in recent weeks.

Reuters

Does this video really show children on the front lines of the war in Ukraine?

Is Ukraine sending children to fight on the front lines of the war? That’s what some people on social media are claiming. As proof, they cite a video showing three very young-looking soldiers, which has been circulating online since November 8. It turns out, however, that we could identify two…

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Ukrainian soldier reunites with family over Christmas call from east

Leonid Onyshchenko, a gruff-voiced 63-year-old Ukrainian soldier with a thick moustache, has spent many a Christmas away from his family, but hearing his little grandson Petro's voice over the phone from far away is as hard as ever.

Reuters

Russian missile barrage forces Ukraine to shut nuclear power plants

Russia unleashed a missile barrage across Ukraine on Wednesday, forcing shutdowns of nuclear power plants and killing at least six civilians as Moscow pursued a campaign to pitch Ukrainian cities into darkness and cold as winter sets in.

Reuters

Explainer-Russia and North Korea forge closer ties amid shared isolation

The United States said this week it has information indicating North Korea is covertly supplying Russia with a "significant" number of artillery shells, in what would be a further sign of deepening ties between the two pariah states.

Reuters

Heartbroken family pay tribute to 'courageous' Irishman, 23, killed in action fighting in Ukraine

Rory Mason, 23, from Dunboyne, Co Meath, was killed on Wednesday, September 28, whilst serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkiv Region, near the Russian border

Irish Mirror

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

U.S. warns of catastrophic consequences if Russia uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine

The United States warned on Sunday of "catastrophic consequences" if Moscow uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine, after Russia's foreign minister said regions holding widely criticised referendums would get full protection if annexed by Moscow.

Reuters

Ukrainian ex-serviceman claims Russians tortured him in eastern city of Izium

Alexander Glushko says he spent the last fortnight of the Russian occupation of his hometown of Izium in northeast Ukraine jailed by Russian soldiers in the dank ruins of a police station where he was tortured with electric wires.

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Ukraine strengthens hold on liberated lands, separatist calls for urgent referendum

Ukraine extended its hold on recently recaptured territory on Monday as troops marched farther east into areas abandoned by Russia, paving the way for a potential assault on occupation forces in the Donbas region.

Daily Mirror

Beauty queen who saw friend killed says she has bullet for Vladimir Putin

Evgenia Prokopenko has has ditched her heels for to help injured fighters and now save lives on Ukraine's frontline. But she still takes her make-up bag into the trenches

Reuters

Ukraine searches for its dead at Russian occupation burial site

Dressed in white protective suits and wearing rubber gloves, Ukrainian emergency workers on Saturday dug up more bodies from a wooded burial site in territory recently recaptured from Russian forces, while townspeople looked for dead relatives.

Reuters

Ukraine says hundreds of bodies found in mass burial site

Ukrainian officials said on Friday they had found hundreds of bodies, some with their hands tied behind their backs, buried in territory recaptured from Russian forces, in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called proof of war crimes by the invaders.

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Ukraine says some bodies found in mass burial site had been bound

Some bodies found in a mass burial site in northeastern Ukraine in territory recaptured from Russian forces were found with their hands tied behind their backs, the governor of Ukraine's Kharkiv province said on Friday.

Reuters

Putin acknowledges China's concerns over Ukraine in sign of friction

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he understood China's Xi Jinping had concerns about the crisis in Ukraine, a surprise acknowledgement of friction with Beijing over the war after a week of stunning Russian losses on the ground.

Reuters

Ukraine hails snowballing offensive, blames Russia for blackouts

Ukrainian forces kept pushing north in the Kharkiv region and advancing to its south and east, Ukraine's army chief said on Sunday, a day after their rapid surge forward drove Russia to abandon its main bastion in the area.

Zenger

Ukrainian MiG-20 Pilot Shoots Combat Clip In Tribute To Fallen Comrade

The video was obtained from the Air Force command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Zenger

Ukrainian Forces Destroy Russian Grad Multiple Rocket Launcher

The footage was obtained from the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Friday, August 26.

Zenger

Russian Separatist Allies Accuse Ukraine Of Shelling Shopping Center In Donetsk

“In Donetsk, a shopping center is on fire after shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” says the DPR.

Zenger

Ukraine’s Marines Obliterate Russian Armored Vehicles With Anti-Tank Guided Missiles

The footage was obtained from the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Monday, August 22.

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