- Russia is getting more and more desperate for recruits to recoup its staggering losses in its war against Ukraine, adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry Anton Herashchenko said
- After a slow and bloody march through Luhansk was finalized with the capture of the city of Lysychansk, the Russian President might consider himself halfway there. But the war has arrived at another crossroads and fighters on both sides are steeling themselves for a third act of fighting that could tip the balance of the conflict
- Russia had a more powerful army and expected a quick victory. It didn’t think Western powers would intervene. Yet a poorly planned military campaign led to a fight much tougher than expected
- Analysts say Kyiv has six months to drive out the invading forces from the country before fatigue sets in and it faces prolonged military gridlock
- Russian forces have attacked the west-central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, with at least 20 dead and 90 wounded, according to latest report from the emergency services on the scene
- Russian authorities have “interrogated, detained, and forcibly deported” between 900,000 and 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens, including 260,000 children, from their homes into Russian territory, often to isolated regions in the far east, U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Wednesday
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- Putin’s next move is anticipated to be a drive into Donetsk, which if captured would fulfill the Kremlin’s primary objective: overrunning the entire Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which has housed Russian-backed separatist factions since 2014
- Mykolaiv Mayor Alexander Senkevich reported “powerful explosions” as the southern port city reels from days of shelling
- Russian troops, along with forces from the Russian-backed self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), have entered the city limits of Siversk in eastern Ukraine, an LPR official told the state-owned TASS news agency. Ukraine’s military maintains Russia has not conducted any new assaults on the front line that include Siversk
- The death toll from Saturday’s Russian missile attack on the town of Chasiv Yar has climbed to 48, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding it was one of the most brutal Russian attacks of the war
- Russian media have reported that Ukrainian forces again launched a missile attack on the town of Nova Kakhovka, in a strategically important Russian-occupied southern area of Kherson that Kyiv is hoping to retake
- The head of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, warned that further disruption in the natural gas supply to Europe could plunge many economies into recession
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