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Ukraine war: a fight to the death in Bakhmut with both sides bogged in the spring thaw

With winter coming to a close in Ukraine, Russia is making a series of advances in the eastern Donbas region, with a primary aim of capturing the city of Bakhmut. While the city itself has some (limited) strategic significance as a regional transport hub, neither its symbolic nor material value…

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Ukraine recap: spring comes too early for Putin's tanks – easy targets as they stick in the mud

Reading the international press on the first day of spring in Ukraine, it appears that Russia has jumped the gun somewhat in its “spring offensive”.

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Ukraine recap: Kyiv keeps its friends close, but will they send the latest warplanes?

The latest dispatches from the Institute for the Study of War make for sobering reading. After a few months in which the initiative on the battlefield was generally considered to be firmly with Ukraine, the pendulum appears as if it could be swinging gradually back Russia’s way.

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Four 'fronts' in the Ukraine-Russia war to look out for as winter bites

Russia had expected to be victorious long before now. Its initial plan envisaged ground assaults across Ukraine in the first ten days and a rapid capitulation thereafter. But Kyiv did not fall – and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, refused to leave the capital, saying, “I need ammunition, not a ride,”…

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Russia sparks global food crisis fears, again, as war grinds on

In the 36th week of war in Ukraine, a grain export deal was threatened after an alleged attack in Crimea.

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Fighter jet crashes in Russian city near Ukraine; Kyiv says 108 women freed in prisoner swap – as it happened

Fighter plane hits residential building in southern Russian city of Yeysk; Ukraine says it is first all-female exchange with Moscow

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Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 236 of the invasion

At least four people killed in drone strikes on capital Kyiv; Iran denies supplying weapons to Russia

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Putin blames Ukraine for Crimea bridge explosion

President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of carrying out an attack that badly damaged a key bridge linking annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland, his first comments on an episode that further highlighted the woes of his military in the eighth month of its invasion.

Tribune News Service

Putin to meet top security officials Monday in wake of Crimea bridge explosion

President Vladimir Putin’s next steps in Ukraine may become clearer after he meets Monday with his top security officials, two days after a massive blast ripped through a key bridge that links annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland.

Tribune News Service

Russia-Ukraine war: Kremlin-backed officials ask Putin to annex regions; EU announces new sanctions on Russia – as it happened

Russian-installed leaders of Luhansk and Kherson ask for territories to be annexed; new EU sanctions designed to ‘make Kremlin pay’

The Guardian - AU

Ukrainian forces retake Russian-held territory near Kharkiv

Ukrainian forces have retaken portions of Russian-held territory in the northeastern Kharkiv region

The Independent UK

Ukrainian attacks in Crimea weaken Russia’s military capacity

Week 25 of the war: Ukraine degrades Russia’s capabilities in the south but is yet to launch a major counteroffensive.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine warns grain export deal will stall if there are further Russian airstrikes on key ports – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Timeline: Week 20 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 20 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Russia claims full control of Luhansk region as key city captured

Ukraine’s military command says its troops have been forced to retreat from the key city of Lysychansk.

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine fighting back in Sievierodonetsk, claims Luhansk governor

Serhiy Haidai says counterattack has recaptured a fifth of frontline city from Russian invaders

The Guardian - UK

Putin involved in war ‘at level of colonel or brigadier’, say western sources

President helping determine movement of Russian soldiers, say sources, as head of UK armed forces says Ukraine is winning

The Guardian - AU

Zelenskiy thanks visiting US senators and says Donbas situation is ‘very difficult’ – as it happened

President tells US officials that Donbas situation remains ‘very difficult’; A large convoy of hundreds of cars carrying refugees reaches Zaporizhzhia

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Vladimir Putin's Victory Day speech could offer clues on the future of Russia's disastrous war in Ukraine

One of the most important days on the Russian calendar is just around the corner, and all eyes are on Vladimir Putin who could use the holiday to declare his intentions for the future of Ukraine.

Los Angeles Times

Russian artillery pounds cities, towns and villages in eastern Ukraine

LVIV, Ukraine — Russian forces aimed a punishing artillery barrage Saturday at cities, towns and villages in eastern Ukraine, destroying electrical plants, fuel depots and other key infrastructure.

Los Angeles Times

Shelling batters Ukraine’s east amid reports that Russia’s offensive may be foundering

LVIV, Ukraine — Russian forces aimed a punishing artillery barrage Saturday at cities, towns and villages in eastern Ukraine, even as Western and Ukrainian military officials and analysts said Moscow’s much-vaunted military offensive in the country’s industrial heartland was being slowed by troop casualties and logistical, supply and morale problems.

The Guardian - UK

Russia’s push into eastern Ukraine comes amid fears of a protracted war

Analysis: The Kremlin’s mounting offensive comes as Boris Johnson and Jens Stoltenberg say war could last for years

Salon

Neocon war hawks: They're back!

The warmongering buffoons who drove the U.S. to disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan are now eager for war with Russia

The Guardian - AU

Institute for Study of War says Russians unable to secure Kyiv attack positions – as it happened

Think tank says ‘increasingly static nature of the fighting reflects incapacity of Russian forces rather than any shift in Russian objectives or efforts’

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