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🔴 Top military officials vow to defend Bakhmut, Zelensky says

Senior Ukrainian commanders and top generals supported continuing to defend the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut against Russian forces, Zelensky's office said Monday. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also said Monday that Bakhmut was more of symbolic than operational importance and that its capture by Russia would not necessarily mean…

France 24

Wagner Chief Says Russian Position at Bakhmut at Risk without Promised Ammunition

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary force warned that Russia's position around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was in peril unless his troops got ammunition, the latest sign of tension between the Kremlin and the private militia chief. Ukrainian military officials and analysts also reported leaders of Russia's 155th…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine war news – latest: Kyiv says defence holding in ‘utter hell’ of Bakhmut

Ukrainian military chiefs ‘in favour of continuing’ defence of frontline city, says Volodymyr Zelensky’s office

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Fight for Bakhmut continues as Russian forces call for more support

Wagner group oligarch warns entire frontline could collapse amid shortages of ammunition in battle for Ukrainian city

The Guardian - UK

Kyiv says Russia pursuing 'attempts to encircle' Bakhmut

KYIV, Ukraine: Kyiv said Sunday it was holding off attacks from Russian troops still attempting to surround Bakhmut, a now-destroyed eastern Ukrainian city that Moscow has been trying to capture for months.

Bangkok Post

Vladimir Putin will eventually be murdered by his inner circle, predicts Zelensky

In a documentary to mark a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, Zelensky said: "They will find a reason to kill the killer", as loyalists have begun turning the tide

Daily Mirror

Race to get last children out of Bakhmut as city becomes ‘hell on earth’

With Russian forces closing in, police try to persuade remaining citizens to get out and access routes come under fire• Russia–Ukraine war: latest updates

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Russia's Wagner boss publishes video showing coffins of dead Ukrainian troops being shipped home

Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia's Wagner Group mercenary force, published a video on Saturday showing what he said were coffins containing bodies of Ukrainian soldiers being repatriated to territory held by Kyiv.

Reuters

As it happened: street fighting in Bakhmut as battle rages for control of the city

UK intelligence says Ukraine attempting to reinforce contested city with elite units but resupply lines increasingly limited

The Guardian - AU

Wagner chief calls on Zelenskiy to abandon ‘encircled’ Bakhmut

Yevgeny Prigozhin says his troops are fighting against old men and children in besieged eastern Ukraine town

The Guardian - UK

Russian Mercenary Boss Says Bakhmut Effectively Surrounded

Russian troops and mercenaries were closing off the last access routes to the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Friday, on the cusp of Moscow's first major victory in half a year after the bloodiest fighting of the war. The head of Russia's Wagner private army said the city, which…

Asharq Al-Awsat

No, Russia did not 'capture and destroy' Ukraine's Leopard 2 tanks

According to social media images, Leopard 2 tanks – recently delivered to Ukraine after weeks of waiting – have been destroyed by Russia's Wagner mercenary group. But Wagner's head Yevgeny Prigozhin has denied the claims, and the images have in fact been around on the internet for a while. We…

France 24

Bakhmut burning: fires everywhere as Russians close in on city’s capture

Situation for Bakhmut’s defenders now almost untenable as seven-month assault may be nearing end

The Guardian - UK

Blinken tells Lavrov US will support Kyiv for as long as it takes during meeting in margins of G20 summit – as it happened

US secretary of state speaks to Russian foreign minister in what is believed to be their first one-on-one conversation since invasion of Ukraine

The Guardian - AU

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AFP

Russia's Prigozhin a 'war criminal': US Justice chief

Washington (AFP) - The US justice chief on Wednesday branded Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russia's mercenary Wagner military force fighting in Ukraine, a war criminal.

AFP

Ukraine army says situation 'extremely tense' around Bakhmut

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine said Tuesday its troops were under pressure in the near-destroyed frontline city of Bakhmut, where Russian forces were launching heavy assaults after months of fighting.

Daily Mirror

Head of Wagner private army demands Putin sends defence minister's son-in-law to fight

Los Angeles Times

Russia’s war on Ukraine grinds into second year as Putin gambles on the long game

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia’s war on Ukraine has entered its second year, with a universal realization that the world is witnessing a long, protracted conflict, the deadliest in Europe since World War II, in which Moscow and Kyiv are hoping against long odds for a decisive breakthrough in 2023.

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The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin accuses west of wanting to dismantle Russia – as it happened

Putin makes claim in TV address; mercenary boss and Ukraine make conflicting claims over control of Yahidne village

Evening Standard

Labour calls for Russian mercenary Wagner Group to be proscribed as terrorists

Labour party wants to follow US who class Wagner as ‘transnational criminal organisation’

The Independent UK

Labour demands that ministers proscribe Wagner Group as terror organisation

The party said the move would make it a criminal offence to belong or support the private military outfit that is working with Russia in Ukraine.

Reuters

Russia's Prigozhin, Ukraine give varying accounts on fighting near Bakhmut

Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said forces of his Wagner group had captured the village of Yahidne, just north of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine on Saturday.

Reuters

Brawling with elite, Russian mercenary boss wishes politician shot

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the shaven-headed former convict and catering magnate who runs Russia's Wagner mercenary army on the Ukraine frontline, said on Friday that a politician who criticised him should be shot and may end up on a pitchfork.

Reuters

Russia's Wagner claims control of Ukrainian village near Bakhmut

Russia's Wagner group of mercenaries has taken full control of the Ukrainian village of Berkhivka, a village on the outskirts of Bakhmut, Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Friday.

WEKU

How a former caterer created the mercenary army fighting Putin's war in Ukraine

Guardian journalist Shaun Walker talks about Yevgeny Prigozhin, the tough-talking convict-turned-businessman who recruits soldiers from Russian prisons to fight in Ukraine.

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