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Four occupied Ukraine regions begin vote on joining Russia

Referendums are due to get underway on Friday, in votes seen as paving the way for an escalation of the war.

Al Jazeera

U.S. report identifies 21 'filtration' locations run by Russia for processing Ukrainians

Russia and its proxy forces in Ukraine are operating 21 locations used to detain, interrogate and process prisoners of war and civilians, according to a new report by Yale University researchers backed by the U.S. State Department as part of efforts to hold Moscow accountable.

Reuters

Ukraine cites risk of 'brutal strikes' by Russia on Independence Day

With Ukraine set to mark its independence from Soviet rule in 1991 and six months since Russian forces invaded, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned of the risk of "brutal strikes" by Russia and said any attack would provoke a powerful response.

Reuters

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Ukraine's capital bans Independence Day festivities, fearing Russian attack

Ukraine's capital Kyiv banned public celebrations this week commemorating independence from Soviet rule, citing a heightened threat of attack as a U.S. official warned of Russian plans to strike Ukrainian infrastructure in the coming days.

Reuters

Ukraine war: six months that shook the world

Six months ago, Vladimir Putin ordered tens of thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine on a "special military operation" - a mass invasion on a scale unseen in Europe since World War Two.

Reuters

Fears Vladimir Putin is preparing apocalyptic ‘false flag’ stunt at nuclear power plant

Russia still controls the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Fears of a false flag operation remain after comments made by a top Kremlin official said there would be consequences if a disaster occurred

Daily Mirror

Russian separatists say Ukraine shelled brewery, caused ammonia leak - Interfax

Pro-Russian separatists accused Ukraine of shelling a brewery in the occupied eastern city of Donetsk on Wednesday, killing one person and triggering a leak of ammonia, Interfax news agency said.

Reuters

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Ukraine power plant shelled again, Zelenskiy rails at Russian 'nuclear terror'

Ukraine said on Sunday that renewed Russian shelling had damaged three radiation sensors and hurt a worker at the Zaporizhzhia power plant, in the second hit in consecutive days on Europe's largest nuclear facility.

Reuters

U.N.'s nuclear watchdog chief condemns shelling at Zaporizhzhia plant

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) raised grave concerns on Saturday about the shelling the previous day at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, saying the action showed the risk of a nuclear disaster.

Reuters

Ukraine's 'ticking clock' to reclaim the city of Kherson before Russia can annex it

The battle for Kherson looms as a pivotal moment for both Ukraine and Russia, experts say, and Ukraine retaking the city would be a huge blow to Russia and an embarrassing setback for President Vladimir Putin.

ABC News

Red Cross renews appeal to visit site of Ukrainian POW attack

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has not yet received permission to visit the site of Friday's attack that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war, it said on Sunday, condemning the incident at the Olenivka facility.

Reuters

Beneath a portrait of Putin, some Ukrainians embrace Russian passports

As the Soviet-era melody of the Russian national anthem filled the room, a small group of Ukrainians in this city seized by Russian troops nearly five months ago swore allegiance to Moscow before being handed freshly minted Russian passports.

Reuters

Russian-held Popasna in Ukraine is a ghost town after end of siege

Two months after falling to Russian troops, the eastern Ukrainian town of Popasna that once was home to 20,000 residents has turned into a ghost town with little sign of life.

Reuters

Ruined Lysychansk eerily silent, residents remain in bomb shelters, after fall to Russia

Lysychansk was once a city of a 100,000 people in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, but it now lies in ruins after its fall to Russian forces with many residents still living in bomb shelters and basements.

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Few civilians, charred buildings in Ukraine's Lysychansk after capture by Russia

Up-ended Ukrainian police cars, riddled with bullets, hulking local government buildings scorched and holed by shells and the damaged golden dome of an Orthodox church.

ABC News

Ukraine war latest: Enormous price for Russia's 'victory', a Snake Island flag, and the cost of Ukraine's recovery

Russian troops dominate the last free city in a key Ukrainian region and eye other targets, while negotiations over the Black Sea ramp up, are among today's developments in the war.

Al Jazeera

Mariupol survivor: My young children asked me if it hurts to die

A 28-year-old mother recounts her harrowing ordeal in Mariupol, where she was surrounded by death and destruction.

The Guardian - UK

Exhausted Russian fighters complain of conditions in eastern Ukraine

Long deployments and a lack of training, support, food and equipment all affecting morale as war drags on

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Two Reuters journalists injured, driver killed in east Ukraine

Two Reuters journalists were injured and a driver killed on Friday after the vehicle they were in came under fire while heading to the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, the latest battle line in Russia's assault on its neighbour.

Reuters

Ukraine's Zelenskiy eyes 'inflection point' in war as Russia tightens grip on key target

Russia tightened its grip on a key target in a battle for control of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region while President Volodymir Zelenskiy pleaded for more Western arms to help Ukraine reach an "inflection point" and prevail in the war.

Reuters

First ship leaves Mariupol since Russia took the city - separatist leader

A ship has left the Ukrainian port of Mariupol for the first time since Russia took the city and is headed east to Russia, Interfax quoted the Russian-backed separatist leader of the Ukrainian breakaway region of Donetsk as saying on Tuesday.

Reuters

Life in Ukraine's post-siege Mariupol: barter markets and Russian TV

People are slowly starting to return to the streets of the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, pummeled by weeks of shelling from Russian forces and now fully under Russian control.

ABC News

Three Russians face Ukrainian war crimes court as Russia takes Mariupol after weeks of fighting

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia has launched 2,275 missiles and 3,000 aerial strikes against Ukraine since the start of the war as the first soldiers from the invading army face court and the demolished port city of Mariupol finally falls.

The Guardian - AU

Zelenskiy says Putin is the only Russian official he is willing to meet with to discuss how to end the war – as it happened

This live blog is now closed, you can find our latest coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war here

Reuters

Russian soldiers start clearing mines from Ukraine's Azovstal

Russian soldiers cleared mines and debris on the industrial grounds of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol on Sunday after hundreds of Ukrainian forces holed up in the vast plant for weeks were ordered to stand down.

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