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Ukraine: Seven more civilians die in conflict hotspot amid Putin’s push to seize Donbas

In one district of a city in Luhansk, about 150 people have reportedly been buried in a mass grave

The Independent UK · May 26, 2022

‘Nowhere is safe’: Ukrainians describe horrors of Russia invasion

The besieged eastern city of Severodonetsk is being subjected to a ‘colossal amount of shelling’ by Russian troops.

Al Jazeera · May 26, 2022

Former NATO general says Putin has 9-month window to win war

Russia gains ground as it focuses its military offensive and Moscow’s vast resources of men and material exact a toll.

Al Jazeera · May 26, 2022

Russia using ‘scorched earth’ tactics in Donbas, Ukraine says

Luhansk governor accuses Russia of indiscriminately shelling Severodonetsk, which has only one working hospital left.

Al Jazeera · May 23, 2022

War Crimes Verdict Looms as Russian Offensive Intensifies

With a verdict due Monday in the conflict’s first war crimes trial, Moscow's offensive in eastern Ukraine is only intensifying, with the city of Severodonetsk under "round-the-clock" bombardment as Russian troops attempt its encirclement. The trial in Kyiv -- seen as a public test of the Ukrainian judicial system's independence…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 23, 2022

Ukraine says it’s holding off Russia’s intensified thrust in the east

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces were deterring Russia’s intensified offensive in the east, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday, even as he labeled the grinding military panorama across the country as “very hard.”

Los Angeles Times · May 22, 2022

Ukraine repells ‘four attacks’ in Donbas to block Russian from securing Severodonetsk

Russian forces reportedly deployed an armoured fighting vehicle known as the Terminator tank to advance on Severodontesk in eastern Ukraine

Evening Standard · May 22, 2022

Putin suffers ‘humiliating defeat’ as 'graveyard' of Russian military vehicles found

Ukrainian military chiefs claim to have killed hundreds of enemy soldiers as they attempted to cross the Seversky Donets River close to Severodonetsk in the east of the country

Daily Mirror · May 21, 2022

Ukraine warns only talks can end war

KYIV: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Saturday that only a diplomatic breakthrough rather than an outright military victory could end Russia's war on his country, as Moscow cut gas supplies to Finland.

Bangkok Post · May 21, 2022

Intense fighting around Severodonetsk as Zelenskiy says Donbas is ‘hell’

Russian forces thought to be trying to cut one of the main supply routes to Ukrainian defenders in the area

The Guardian - UK · May 20, 2022