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Russia issues new surrender deadline for Mariupol as Ukrainians vow to fight on

Russia's forces carried out dozens of air strikes in eastern Ukraine overnight after Ukrainian officials said Moscow had launched a major offensive, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. Read our live blog to see how all the day's events unfolded.

France 24

Why Russia is doubling down on Donbas and how Ukraine is defending itself

After withdrawing its troops from the capital Kyiv, Russia is now focusing on the region of Ukraine close to its border.

ABC News

Russian forces launch ground assault in eastern industrial heartland, Ukraine says

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Ukraine officials said Monday that Russia began its long-anticipated assault to seize control of their country’s eastern industrial heartland, launching a ground assault along a nearly 300-mile front while pounding the nation, including the western city of Lviv, with a deadly barrage of missile strikes.

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Russia sets new Mariupol ultimatum in 'Battle of Donbas' as West pledges more help

Russia was intensifying its attack on Ukraine's east on Tuesday as it seized a frontline city and sought a decisive victory in Mariupol, prompting Western governments to pledge more arms and sanctions.

Reuters

How Ukraine war is changing lives of millions of displaced people and towns they have fled to

Marichka Kritenko says fleeing a war zone is like being in an emergency on a plane — once you help yourself, you can assist others. Here's how she and other Ukrainian refugees are coping.

ABC News

Police Say 269 Bodies Recovered in Ukraine’s War-Torn Irpin

Ukrainian investigators have examined 269 dead bodies in Irpin, near Kyiv, since the town was taken back from Russian forces in late March, a police official said on Monday, as workers dug fresh graves on its outskirts. The town, which had a pre-war population of about 62,000, was one of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Police say 269 bodies recovered in Ukraine's war-torn Irpin

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France reopens embassy in Kyiv but warns its nationals to stay away

The French Ambassador to Ukraine, Etienne de Poncins, has returned to Kyiv, saying that the security situation is now "acceptable". But the embassy continues to warn French nationals that they should "absolutely" avoid the stricken capital.

Radio France Internationale

Ukraine toddler scrawled on by desperate mum finally safe from Russian troops

Sasha Makoviy shared a photo on Instagram of two-year-old daughter Vira's back after she'd written her name and details on her skin soon after Russia invaded Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Ukrainian woman ‘very excited’ to open hairdressing business in London

Elena Lishchun fled Kyiv the day Russia invaded and said she was ‘determined’ to find work in the UK.

The Independent UK

Armor Coming For You: Ukraine Squad Takes Over Abandoned Russian Troop Carrier

The vehicle - complete with a Russian 'V' painted on the side - was found by members of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

Zenger

Russian missile strikes on Lviv kill at least six and injure child as Putin's forces target safe haven

Millions have fled from Kyiv and eastern Ukraine to the western city of Lviv but nowhere is safe from Russia's bombardment

Wales Online

Ukraine World Cup preparations in chaos as Dynamo Kyiv demand to keep stars for charity matches

Scotland's playoff showdown with the Ukrainians will finally take place on June 1 – but there are more issues.

Daily Record

Brit ready to house Ukrainian family pays £3,000 for hotel as they wait WEEKS for visa

Maryna and teenage daughter Anna left Kyiv with nothing after Vladimir Putin's forces invaded, spending two days at a station in the freezing cold before they could board a train taking them to freedom

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Reuters

Blasts reported in Ukraine's Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk regions

Authorities in Ukraine's Western and Southern regions of Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk reported multiple explosions on Monday, while a Reuters reporter heard a series of blasts in Kyiv, as Russia's invasion of the country continues.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Hits Hundreds of Targets across Ukraine, Fighters Cling on in Mariupol

Russia said on Monday it had hit hundreds of military targets in Ukraine overnight, destroying command posts with air-launched missiles, while authorities in the western city of Lviv, which has escaped heavy bombardment, said a missile attack killed six. The Russian defense ministry said in a statement it had destroyed…

The Guardian - AU

Zelenskiy says Russia wants to ‘destroy’ Ukraine’s entire Donbas region

Ukraine defies Russian ultimatum and pledges to keep defending Mariupol as bombs hit Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv

The Independent UK

`No surrender': Ukrainians fight on in Mariupol steel plant

Ukraine vowed to fight to the end in the besieged port city of Mariupol where a few thousand fighters held on in a massive steel plant laced with tunnels

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The Guardian - UK

Charred houses, cratered lawns and an epic clean-up on road to Chernihiv

Ukrainians living in territory vacated by Russian forces are counting the cost of occupation

Bangkok Post

Ukraine says Russia wants to 'destroy' Donbas, Mariupol readies final defence

KYIV, Ukraine: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of wanting to "destroy" the entire eastern region of Donbas, as the last remaining forces in the strategic port of Mariupol prepared Monday for a final defence.

Reuters

Ukraine completes questionnaire for EU membership

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy formally submitted a completed questionnaire on European Union membership to an envoy on Monday and said he believed this step would lead to his country gaining candidate status within weeks.

Daily Mirror

Nikita Khrushchev warns Russia may drop nukes on Ukraine - 60 years after great-grandad stepped back from brink

Nikita Khrushchev, the great granddaughter of ex Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, believes Vladimir Putin would eventually do whatever it takes to claim victory in the war

Al Jazeera

Zelenskyy says Ukraine will put up tough resistance in the east

As Ukraine braces for a new Russian assault in the east, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promises not to cede territory.

ABC News

Ukraine latest: Deaths as Kharkiv apartment blocks hit by shelling; Mariupol defenders refuse Russia's surrender-or-die ultimatum

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says at least 18 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded after shelling in the centre of Kharkiv as a result of "deliberate terror … against ordinary civilians".

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine vows Mariupol troops will ‘fight to the end’ as surrender deadline passes

Russian forces edge closer to control of port city whose fall would deal economic blow to Kyiv and symbolic victory for Moscow

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