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Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Kyiv ‘unprecedented in modern times’, says US – as it happened

First time a US president visited a ‘country at war where US military does not control critical infrastructure’, says national security adviser

The Guardian - AU · Feb 20, 2023

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia hit by 'extraordinarily significant' losses in east

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gives an update on the areas experiencing the heaviest fighting, while Russia warns France that Moscow remembers the fate of Napoleon Bonaparte as it accuses the French president of duplicitous diplomacy.

ABC News · Feb 20, 2023

Ukraine's Zelenskiy: Russia hit by "extraordinarily significant" losses in east

Ukraine's military is inflicting "extraordinarily significant" losses on Russian forces near the town of Vuhledar in the eastern Donbas region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday.

Reuters · Feb 19, 2023

Widows of Russian fighters killed in Ukraine war given baffling fur coat gifts

The coats were being given to Russian women whose husbands had been invading the Donbas - in a donation drive organised by the wife of a convicted war criminal

Daily Mirror · Feb 7, 2023

Russia assembles troops for possible offensive in Luhansk, Ukraine says

‘Battles for the region are heating up’ as Russian forces are located in Donetsk

The Guardian - UK · Feb 6, 2023

Ukrainian troops begin training on German Leopard tanks in Europe

Ukrainian forces begin training on German Leopard tanks on Monday, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said, ahead of their delivery to the front line. With Russian forces keeping Ukrainian troops tied down with fighting in the eastern Donbas region, Kyiv is urgently awaiting deliveries of the tanks from its Western…

France 24 · Feb 6, 2023

Russian Forces Keep Up Pressure as Ukraine Anniversary Nears

Russian forces are keeping Ukrainian troops tied down with fighting in the eastern Donbas region as Moscow assembles additional combat power there for an expected offensive in the coming weeks, Ukrainian officials said Monday. Weeks of intense fighting continued to rage around the city of Bakhmut and the nearby towns…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 6, 2023

Russian forces keep up pressure as Ukraine anniversary nears

Officials in Ukraine say Russian forces are keeping Ukrainian troops tied down with fighting in the eastern Donbas region

The Independent UK · Feb 6, 2023

Fierce Fighting in North of Ukraine’s Bakhmut, Says Russian Head of Wagner Group

The head of Russia's private Wagner militia said on Sunday that fierce fighting was ongoing in the northern parts of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which has been the focus of Russian forces' attention for weeks. Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the founder and head of the Wagner group, said his soldiers were…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 5, 2023

Ukraine will fight to hold 'fortress' Bakhmut as long as it can - Zelenskiy

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday Ukraine would fight to hold on to the eastern "fortress" city of Bakhmut for as long as it could, and urged the West to supply long-range weapons to help Kyiv push Russian forces out of the Donbas region.

Reuters · Feb 3, 2023