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Russian gains in Ukraine’s east indicate a shift in momentum in the war
By Reuters and published by In-Cyprus Kyiv – Russian forces were assaulting the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Saturday after saying they had captured the nearby rail hub of Lyman as Moscow pressed its offensive in the eastern Donbas. Russian gains in recent days indicate a shift in momentum in the war, now in its …
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Pounded by Russian offensive in the east, Ukraine rules out ceasefire
By Reuters and published by ChannelNews Asia Kyiv – Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow while Russia stepped up its attack in the eastern Donbas region and stopped sending gas to Finland in its latest response to Western sanctions and its deepening international isolation. Polish President Andrzej Duda told …
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Russian forces step up east Ukraine campaign, more wounded leave Mariupol bastion
By Reuters and published by Financial Post Kyiv – Russian forces bombarded areas of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region from land and air on Friday, destroying houses in residential districts and killing a number of civilians, Ukrainian officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the assaults had turned the Donbas into “hell.” In the southern port city …
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Russia’s laser weapon claim derided as propaganda
By BBC RUSSIA claims to have used laser weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine, although the US says it has seen no evidence of this and Ukraine has derided it as propaganda. What are laser weapons and how effective could they be in the conflict? Yury Borisov, the deputy prime minister in charge of …
Putin takes Mariupol, but wider Donbas victory slipping from reach: Analysts
By Reuters and published by ChannelNews Asia Kyiv – Even as the Kremlin prepares to take full control of the ruins of Mariupol city, it faces the growing prospect of defeat in its bid to conquer all of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas because its badly mauled forces lack the manpower for significant advances. Russian President …
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Mariupol fighters in Russian hands; both sides claim wins
By AP, published US News & World Report, plus BBC Kyiv, Ukraine – Hundreds of Ukrainian fighters, including wounded men carried out on stretchers, left the vast steel plant in Mariupol where they mounted a dogged last stand and turned themselves over to Russian hands, signalling the beginning of the end of a siege that …
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Putin lobs cryptic new threats at Finland, Sweden for Joining Nato
By US News & World Report and published by MSN News RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin lobbed new threats at Finland and Sweden as Nato prepares to consider their formal applications for membership, saying Russia did not necessarily view their joining the Cold War-era alliance as a direct threat but that it would have to …
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Burning munitions cascade down on Ukrainian steel plant – video
By Reuters and published by Swissinfo.ch London – White brightly burning munitions were shown cascading down on the Azovstal steel works in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in what a British military expert said looked like either an attack with phosphorus or incendiary weapons. Reuters was not able to immediately identify the type of …
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Ukraine diverts some Russian gas flows, claims battlefield gains
By Reuters, published by Channel NewsAsia, plus CNN Kharkiv – Flows of Russian gas to Europe through a transit point in Ukraine dried up on Wednesday (May 11), while Kyiv reported battlefield gains over invading Russian forces that could signal a shift in the war’s momentum. Ukraine has remained a major route for Russian …
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Putin’s military officers refusing to obey orders in Ukraine: US official
By Jon Jackson, Newsweek, and published by MSN News A SENIOR official from the US Department of Defence on Monday (May 9) said officers in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military have joined soldiers in refusing to follow orders in Ukraine. During a background briefing, the senior official at the Department of Defence told Newsweek …
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Sixty feared dead in Ukraine school bombed by Russia, governor says
By Reuters, published by Swissinfo.ch, plus CNN Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine – As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on Sunday. Russian forces also continued shelling the Azovstal steelworks, last holdout of Ukrainian …
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Putin to send ‘doomsday’ warning to West at Russia’s WW2 victory parade
By Reuters, published by MSN News, plus BBC London – Russian President Vladimir Putin will send a “doomsday” warning to the West when he leads celebrations on Monday marking the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany, brandishing Russia’s vast firepower while its forces fight on in Ukraine. Defiant in the face …
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Russia expects trade with China to reach $200 billion by 2024 – report
By Reuters and published by Channel NewsAsia RUSSIA said on Saturday (Apr. 30) it expected commodity flows with China to grow and trade with Beijing to reach $200 billion by 2024, as Moscow faces mounting isolation from the West. China has refused to condemn Russia’s actions in Ukraine and has criticised the unprecedented Western …
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Ukraine says Russia taking ‘colossal losses’ in eastern battle
By Reuters, published by the Straits Times, plus The Daily Mail Kyiv – Ukraine acknowledged on Friday (Apr. 29) it was taking heavy losses in Russia’s assault in the east, but said Russia’s losses were even worse. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky also praised his US counterpart Joe Biden after he called on Congress to …
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Biden wants $33B more to help Ukraine battle Russia
By AP and published by Star Tribune Washington – US President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday (Apr. 28) for an additional $33 billion to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion, a signal that the US is prepared to mount a robust, long-term campaign to bolster Kyiv and weaken Moscow as the bloody war enters …
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Putin gets what he didn’t want: Ukraine army closer to West
By AP, and published by US New & World Report Washington — The longer Ukraine’s army fends off the invading Russians, the more it absorbs the advantages of western weaponry and training — exactly the transformation President Vladimir Putin wanted to prevent by invading in the first place. The list of arms flowing to …
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Moscow aims to capture southern Ukraine: Russian general
By Reuters, published by The Globe and Mail, plus BBC A RUSSIAN general said on Friday (Apr. 22) that Moscow wants to seize all of southern and eastern Ukraine, far wider war aims than it had acknowledged as it presses on with a new offensive after its campaign to capture the capital Kyiv collapsed …
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Kremlin insiders alarmed over growing toll of Putin’s war in Ukraine
By Bloomberg, published by The Straits Times Moscow- Almost eight weeks after Mr. Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine, with military losses mounting and Russia facing unprecedented international isolation, a small but growing number of senior Kremlin insiders are quietly questioning his decision to go to war. The ranks of the critics at the …
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Russia ratchets up battle for control of eastern Ukraine
By AP and published by Denver Post, plus BBC Kyiv, Ukraine – Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland on Tuesday, assaulting cities and towns along a boomerang-shaped front hundreds of miles long in what both sides described as a new phase of the war. After a Russian push to overrun …
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Russia hits Kyiv and Lviv, presses offensive in ruins of Mariupol
By Reuters, published by Cyprus Mail, plus BBC Kyiv, Mariupol, Ukraine – Russia’s warplanes bombed Lviv and its missiles struck Kyiv and Kharkiv on Saturday, as Moscow followed through on a threat to launch more long-range attacks on Ukrainian cities after its Black Sea Fleet’s flagship was sunk. In besieged Mariupol, scene of the …
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Russia says attacks on Kyiv will increase a day after losing warship
By AP and published by Irish Examiner Kyiv, Ukraine – A day after Moscow suffered a stinging symbolic defeat with the loss of its Black Sea fleet flagship, Russia’s Defence Ministry promised to ramp up missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital in response to Ukraine’s alleged military “diversions on the Russian territory.” The threat …
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Damaged Russian warship is afloat, Pentagon says
By CNN and BBC ONE OF the Russian Navy’s most important warships has been badly damaged in the Black Sea, a massive blow to a military struggling against Ukrainian resistance 50 days into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his neighbour. Russian sailors evacuated the guided-missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of its Black Sea fleet, after a …