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☆ Arsenal win to move level with Man City, Spurs slip up at Wolves
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Lori Ewing | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Nov 11 (Reuters) - Arsenal beat struggling Burnley 3-1 to move level on points with leaders Manchester City at the top of the Premier League table on Saturday after Tottenham Hotspur slipped to a last-gasp loss at Wolverhampton Wanderers. Leandro Trossard, William Saliba and Oleksandr Zinchenko scored in Arsenal's victory which lifted them above Spurs to second in the table, level on 29 points with Manchester City, who have a game in hand. Arsenal's afternoon was slightly soured by substitute Fabio Vieira being shown a straight red card but manager Mikel Arteta, who blasted officials after the loss to Newcastle United a week earlier, gave the referees high marks. A goal in the 59th minute from defender Victor Lindelof earned United a 1-0 win over Luton and secure a second successive league victory. Idrissa Gueye scored four minutes from time to earn Everton a breathless win at Selhurst Park.

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Kyiv, Ukraine CNN —For many Ukrainians, a recent somber assessment of the battlefield by Ukraine’s military chief was not a surprise. On Saturday, Igor Zhovka, deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, slammed Zaluzhny for his comments. The situation may be better now but the truth of where the war stands “must be accepted, whatever it is,” he told CNN. But now even as the war moves into what Zaluzhny described as “positional warfare,” Shevchuk is convinced it will remain on everyone’s minds. Kyiv resident Natalia Kovalchuk believes everyone in Ukraine will have to join the war effort in the long run.

Persons: Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny, Zaluzhny, Igor Zhovka, “, ” Zhovka, Volodymyr Zelensky, ”, Ursula von der, Vitalii Shevchuk, CNN Vitalii, ” Shevchuk, Shevchuk, Alexander Ermochenko, Zaluzhny’s candor, ” Lyuba Shipovich, Zelensky, Maxym, Iryna Avramets, ” Iryna, “ Zelensky, Oksana Yarosh, don’t, Natalia Kovalchuk, CNN Natalia Kovalchuk, ” CNN’s Gul Tuysuz Organizations: Ukraine CNN, Ukrainian Armed Forces, Economist, ”, European, CNN, Russian, Reuters, Dignitas, Getty, Kyiv, Spain Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Russia, ” Ukraine, Hostomel, Ukraine’s Crimean, Donetsk, Luhansk, Russian, Moscow, Saltovka, Kharkiv, Crimea

☆ ‘Everything is destroyed’: Civilians trickle out of Avdiivka as Russian assault leaves Ukrainian town in ruins
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Vasco Cotovio | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

They [stayed because] did not want to leave their homes,” Soloviy explained. “The situation has not changed radically - it is tough,” the head of the Avdiivka city military administration Vitalii Barabash said in daily update on Wednesday. “Russian troops continue to try to encircle Avdiivka, making numerous attempts to storm it,” the Ukrainian National Guard said in an update Wednesday. “The Russians decided to push on, they keep going despite the losses.”But for those who go to Avdiivka day in and day out, that’s where the comparisons end. Here patients are stabilized and we further transfer them to other cities, where people are provided with more professional help,” Solviy explained, adding there’s not enough staff for the demand.

Persons: ”, Dmytro Soloviy, ” Soloviy, “, Vitalii Barabash, Barabash, ” Barabash, it’s, ” Solviy, Vitalii Sytnik, Solviy Organizations: CNN, Moscow, Ukraine National Police, Avdiivka, White Angels, Ukrainian National Guard, that’s Locations: Ukrainian, Avdiivka, Donetsk, Russia, Moscow, ”, Ukraine, Avdiivka’s, “, Krasnohorivka, Aviidvka, Bakhmut

☆ Despite losing limbs, Ukrainian sappers return to work clearing land mines
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Vitalii Hnidyi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/5] Oleksii Poliakov, member of the National police special demining unit works with mine fuses during a demining operation near Izum town, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, October 24, 2023. By May the following year he was back at work, standing on a prosthetic limb, sweeping for and defusing mines. But she has accepted it," he told Reuters while working in the Kharkiv region this week. Valeri Onul, another sapper, also returned to work in the unit despite losing a leg in a blast in November. Even in the immediate aftermath of the blast, he said he was sure he would return to mine-clearance work when he had made a recovery.

Persons: Sofiia, Ilkiv, –, Valeri Onul, Tom Balmforth, Deborah Kyvrikosaios Organizations: National, REUTERS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Izum, Ukraine, Kharkiv region, KHARKIV, Russia, Kherson, Kharkiv, Dementiivka

“The fighting has been going on for four days,” Vitalii Barabash, the head of the Avdiivka city military administration, told Ukrainian national television on Friday. Both small arms battles and artillery duels.”According to Barabash, Russia has been “firing everything they have available” at the city in a bid to encircle Ukrainian fighters. They are not human beings, they are titans.”Ukrainian President Voloydymr Zelensky also said his country’s troops were keeping Russian forces at bay. Avdiivka, a city very close to the Donetsk city airport, had already been the front line between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists since 2014. It is seen by Ukrainian and Russian forces as a heavily fortified stronghold, with entrenchments built up over the past eight years.

Persons: ” Vitalii Barabash, “, ”, Volodymyr Zelensky, Jens Stoltenberg, Virginia, AP Barabash, ” Barabash, Voloydymr Zelensky, ” Zelensky, Zelensky, Oleksandr Shtupun, Avdiivka, that’s, Barabash Organizations: CNN, Russian, Ukrainian, NATO, Virginia Mayo, AP, Institute for, ” CNN Locations: Ukrainian, Avdiivka, Barabash, Russia, Donetsk oblast, “, Donetsk, Russian, Mariupol

☆ Russian strikes on Ukraine kill boy in Kharkiv, damage port infrastructure
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Rescuers work at a site of a residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine October 6, 2023. A drone attack damaged a grain silo in the Izmail district of the Odesa region, regional governor Oleh Kiper said. In the latest strikes, Ukrainian air defences shot down 25 of 33 drones launched by Russia from the annexed Crimea peninsular, the air force said in a statement. In a separate strike on the city of Kharkiv, 16 people were wounded in addition to the 10-year boy who was killed, regional governor Oleh Synehubov said. The Ukrainian military said that operations at an international ferry checkpoint 'Orlivka' were suspended and vehicles were rerouted following the drone attacks.

Persons: Vitalii, Oleh Kiper, Oleh Synehubov, Moscow, Kiper, Olena Harmash, Timothy Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Kharkiv, Russia, Odesa, Izmail, Ukrainian, Crimea, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Moscow

☆ Russian missile strike on Ukraine village kills 51 during memorial to fallen soldier
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Vitalii Hnidyi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

It also appeared to be one of the biggest civilian death tolls in any single Russian strike. Some of them were mourners gathering in the cafe after a service for a fallen soldier from the village. [1/3]Rescuers work at a site of a Russian military strike in the village of Hroza, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, October 5, 2023. The missile hit during a service marking the reburial in his home village of a soldier who had died in action elsewhere. This is a terrible tragedy," Klymenko told Ukrainian television.

Persons: Zelenskiy, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Serhiy Bolvinov, Oleksandr Mukhovatyi, Mukhovatyi, Ihor Klymenko, Klymenko, Rustem Umerov, Olena Harmash, Yuliia, Timothy Heritage, Andrew Heavens, Ron Popeski David Gregorio, Rod Nickel Organizations: Suspilne, Regional, Political Community, REUTERS, Prosecutors, Thomson Locations: Kyiv, Spain HROZA, Ukraine, Russian, Ukrainian, Hroza, Kharkiv, Spain, Moscow, Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Russia

☆ Tank battles in Ukraine are putting several generations of 'crappy Russian armored vehicles' and their flaws on display
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Benjamin Brimelow | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementT-72s, T-80s, and T-90sUkrainians load a Russian T-72 onto a truck outside Izyum in September 2022. It also has a coaxial 7.62 mm machine gun mounted in the hull and a 12.7mm heavy machine gun on the turret. AdvertisementAdvertisementUS soldiers examine a Ukrainian T-80 tank during an exercise in September 2014. AdvertisementAdvertisementA Danish instructor leads a Ukrainian tank crew and translators through training on a Leopard 1A5 in Germany in May. AdvertisementAdvertisementA Ukrainian Leopard 1 tank crew at a test site in Ukraine in September.

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☆ Ukrainian village's sole resident, 76, unafraid after 4,000 km odyssey home
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Vitalii Hnydyi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

But Vira Chernukha, 76 and now the sole resident of a northeastern Ukrainian village bombed and depopulated by Russian invaders, has no intention of ever leaving Dementiivka again. Nowadays, she keeps busy fixing the damage to her yard and tending to a monument to Ukrainian soldiers who died defending the village. When she woke up, she was in a hospital room in Belgorod, a city just over the Russian border. "We travelled via Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to Lviv and then Vinnitsya," she said, referring to two western Ukrainian cities. Ukrainian forces retook much of the country's northeast last year in a lightning counteroffensive that caught Russian troops off guard.

Persons: Vira Chernukha, Dementiivka, I'm, I've, Chernukha, Ron Popeski, Tom Balmforth, Peter Graff Organizations: Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Dementiivka, Kharkiv, Ukrainian, Russian, Belgorod, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Lviv

☆ Ukrainian soldiers heartened by delivery of U.S. Abrams tanks
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Anna Voitenko | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukraine had taken delivery of its first shipment of U.S. jet-powered Abrams tanks to help in the defence against Russia's invasion. Mark Milley, the top U.S. general, has said he regards M1 Abrams tanks as the world's best and that they "will make a difference" in the 19-month-old war. With a powerful engine, 120 mm main gun and special armour, the Abrams tank is particularly lethal against heavy armour forces. Ukrainian tank crews training in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine said that once they were deployed, the Abrams tanks would be a big step up from the Soviet-era tanks they are currently operating. The Kremlin said this week that U.S. supplies of military hardware such as the Abrams tanks would not change the situation on the battlefield.

Persons: Abrams, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Mark Milley, Zelenskiy, Milley, Oleksandr, Ron Popeski, Timothy Heritage Organizations: Abrams, Ukrainian, Leopard, U.S, Russian, Thomson Locations: DONETSK, Ukraine, Kyiv, U.S, Ukrainian, Donetsk

And at least 10 people were injured in overnight missile attacks on the city of Cherkasy in central Ukraine. Last year, Russia began a series of intense attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in October. Ukrenergo said the overnight missile attacks resulted in damage to power facilities in western and central regions and caused blackouts in several areas. Ukrainian air defenses shot down 36 of 43 missiles launched by Russia on Thursday, Ukraine’s army chief said. On Thursday, Zelensky travels to meet Biden, who is seeking to hear a “battlefield perspective,” the White House said.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky, Joe Biden, Vitalii Klitschko, Ukrenergo, Ukraine’s, “, ”, Ihor Klymenko, Kyiv City Military Administration Serhii Popko, Vladyslav Sodel, Sergei Supinsky, Zelensky, ” Zelensky, Biden, John Kirby Organizations: Ukraine CNN —, White House, Internal, Kyiv City Military Administration, Russia, Reuters Firefighters, Getty, United Nations General Assembly, UN, National Security Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, Ukraine CNN — Ukraine, Kherson, Kharkiv, Russia, Cherkasy, “, Vladyslav, AFP, New York, Ukrainian

☆ The new T-14 tank Russia has been bragging about? We haven't seen it 'a single time,' Ukraine's military intel chief says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Russian media has reported that the new T-14 tank has seen combat in Ukraine. But Ukraine's military intel chief says Ukrainian forces haven't seen any T-14s in action. It's possible the T-14 has been used, but the war has tarnished the reputation of Russian tanks. "We haven't seen a single instance of this machine being used," Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, chief of Ukrainian defense intelligence, said in response to a question about the T-14 during a recent conference in Kyiv. Not only is the T-14 expensive, but Russian defense industry publications have reported development and manufacturing problems with it.

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☆ Ukrainians are worried that China could cut their access to homemade drones remotely, making them into 'nothing more than a coaster for your coffee'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ukrainian volunteer groups have been constructing makeshift explosive drones for the country's army. The improvised explosive-dropping devices are cobbled together using Chinese DJI copters. One drone technician said he's worried China could suspend the accounts needed to make the drones fly. In the last few months, Ukrainian forces have been expanding their usage of makeshift tactical drones carrying explosives, Insider previously reported. "All this equipment, on which our whole reconnaissance architecture is built, will turn into nothing more than a coaster for your coffee," Vitalii told the Kyiv Independent.

Persons: he's, Vitalii Organizations: Service, Adam Tactical, Kyiv Independent, Adam Locations: China, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine

☆ Russians opened fire on a Ukrainian flag tied to balloons, revealing their position for a counterattack, Ukraine says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Ukrainian flag attached to helium balloons flew into occupied territory, Kyiv's military said. Russian soldiers tried to shoot it down but revealed their firing positions, an official said. "For several hours, the Ukrainian flag was flying over occupied Donetsk. I had a lot of messages from people living in the occupied territory, who told me they are waiting for the liberation of Donetsk." Donetsk City has been occupied by Russia since 2014 when fighting in eastern Ukraine began.

Persons: Vitalii Barabash, Barabash Organizations: Service, Ukrainian, Kyiv Independent, Euromaidan Press, Telegram, Donetsk, Guardian Locations: Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Avdiyivka, Avdiivka, Russian, Donetsk City, Donetsk, Russia, Moscow, Luhansk, Kherson, Kyiv

☆ Opinion | Corruption Is an Existential Threat to Ukraine, and Ukrainians Know It
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Farah Stockman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

No one knows better what an existential threat corruption can be, sapping the public trust and the legitimacy of the state. Ukrainians consider corruption the country’s second-most-serious problem, behind only the Russian invasion, according to a poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology this year. That raises hopes that Ukrainians are starting to resist corruption with the same can-do spirit that repelled the Russian invasion. Ukrainian lawmakers are pushing back against the scrutiny. “Many Ukrainians are unhappy with this decision of the Parliament,” Andrii Borovyk, the executive director of Transparency International Ukraine, told me.

Persons: Yuriy Nikolov, Volodymyr Zelensky, Oleksii Reznikov, Bohdan Torokhtiy, Alina Levchenko, Mr, Zelensky, ” Andrii Borovyk, Vitalii Shabunin, ” Organizations: Kyiv International Institute of, European Union, Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Transparency International, Ukrainian Pravda Locations: Ukraine, Ukrainian, Europe, Instagram, Kyiv, Transparency International Ukraine

☆ Ukraine war: Kyiv's burgeoning weapons industry is enabling it to project power far beyond the front lines
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Tim Lister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —In the early hours of August 29th, swarms of Ukrainian drones flew across seven Russian regions. One Russian blogger complained that the Pskov strike indicated that Russian air defenses had not adapted to defend against repeated Ukrainian drone strikes. The damage being done is not going to break the back of the Russian air force, but it has become a serious irritant. Open-source reporting suggests there are at least several Pantsir-2 air defense batteries around Moscow. Such weapons put Russian forces on notice that they are vulnerable far from the front lines.

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☆ Russian missile attack kills 7 in northern Ukrainian city as Zelenskyy visits NATO candidate Sweden
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A view shows a site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 19, 2023. Sweden abandoned its longstanding policy of military nonalignment to support Ukraine with weapons and other aid in the war against Russia. As Zelenskyy arrived in Sweden, a Russian missile strike killed seven people and wounded 90 others in the city center of Chernihiv, the regional capital of the northern Ukrainian province of the same name, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. A Russian missile hit right in the center of the city, in our Chernihiv," he wrote on Telegram. In Russia, President Vladimir Putin visited top military officials in the city of Rostov-on-Don near the Ukrainian border.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy, Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia, Ihor Klymenko, Vladimir Putin, Don, Putin, Valery Gerasimov, Wagner, group's, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Gerasimov, Sergei Shoigu, Prigozhin, Alexander Khodakovsky, Tiurin, Vitalii Bunechko Organizations: Russia, Archer, NATO, Russia's Southern Military District, Russian, Ukraine Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Chernihiv, Sweden, Harpsund, Stockholm, Ukrainian, Russia, Rostov, Urozhaine, Ukraine's, Donetsk, Zhytomyr

☆ Ukrainians are testing out a jerry-rigged mine-clearing machine made from a farm vehicle with spinning metal chains
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Ukrainian engineer is trying a novel method of mine-clearance: adapting a farm excavator. Video shows whirling chains strike the ground as the digger moves forward, blasting hidden mines. The design takes inspiration from the WWII-era Sherman Tank, some of which were also kitted out with spinning chains to clear mines, Reuters reported. A commander speaking to The Post also said that Western-supplied mine-clearing equipment has proved a disappointingly easy target for Russian artillery to strike. On Monday, the US announced a new $200 million aid package to Ukraine, which includes de-mining equipment.

Persons: Sherman, Vitalii, Volodymyr Ozoryan, Oleksii Reznikov, Alexander Lobov, Ukraine's Organizations: Service, Reuters, Defense, Guardian, UN, Washington Post, US Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Wall, Silicon

CNN —Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed all officials in charge of regional military recruitment centers amid a widespread corruption scandal. A scandal linked to the procurement of war-time supplies had already led to Zelensky firing a slew of senior Ukrainian officials at the start of the year, and prompted Ukraine’s deputy defense minister Viacheslav Shapovalov to resign after allegations of corruption surfaced in the media. “I have just held a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council,” he said in a video clip. “One key issue is the results of the inspection of military registration and enlistment offices. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau said it was investigating “high-profile media reports” into allegations that Ukraine’s defense ministry was buying military provisions, including food for the troops, at inflated prices.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky, Viacheslav Shapovalov, Zelensky, “, ”, ” Zelensky, Oleksii Symonenko, Ivan Lukerya, Nehoda, Vitalii Organizations: CNN, National Security and Defense Council, “, Corruption

☆ On Ukraine's landmine-strewn front, even the corpses can kill
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Vladyslav Smilianets | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Viacheslav RatynskyiZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, Ukraine, Aug 3 (Reuters) - When they found the bodies of Russian troops at an abandoned position, something about the corpses looked wrong. "We lose one sapper every day, either wounded or dead. Even their own dead: "They know that our med-evac groups lift the wounded and the dead, under which they then find these explosives. "We had cases when five or six wounded people were brought in, and most of them turned out to be sappers. Ukraine's factories have tooled up to make equipment to help keep the sappers safer.

Persons: Volodymyr, it's, Oleksandr, Ihor Iefymenko, Vitalii Hnidyi, Peter Graff, Hugh Lawson Organizations: Armed Forces, REUTERS, PM, GO, Brigade, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Donetsk region, Soviet, Kharkiv, Canadian

[1/5] Ukrainian service members check a destroyed Russian a BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the front line in the newly liberated village Storozheve in Donetsk region, Ukraine June 14, 2023. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy concedes that Ukraine will probably not be allowed into NATO while the war with Russia is raging, but he is pushing for accession one day. You won't see that on television," he said at a practice shooting range in eastern Ukraine in late June. Neskuchne was one of several settlements captured by Ukraine in a southward thrust along the Mokri Yaly river starting in June. Yoda said he had been wounded four times over the course of the war, and that many soldiers were carrying injuries.

Persons: Oleksandr Ratushniak, Povar, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Neskuchne, It's, Andriy, Yoda, Max Hunder, MIke Collett, White, Alex Richardson Organizations: REUTERS, NATO, Andriy, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Storozheve, Donetsk region, Russia, DONETSK, Vilnius, Ukrainian, Makarivka, Moscow, Crimea, Bakhmut, Azov, Crimean, Kharkiv, Kherson

☆ Three killed in latest Russian air strikes on Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Rescuers work at the site of an apartment building damaged during Russian missile strikes, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 24, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoJune 24 (Reuters) - At least three people were killed in Kyiv early on Saturday after Russia unleashed its latest overnight air strikes on Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said missiles had targeted at least five regions across the country. Ukraine's military said air defences had destroyed 41 out of 51 cruise missiles, as well as two drones, launched by Russia in the assault. Moscow began stepping up regular air strikes on Ukraine in May as Kyiv's military was planning a counteroffensive, which is now ongoing, to retake Russian-occupied territory in the east and south.

Persons: Valentyn, Ihor Klymenko, Serhiy Popko, Mayor Vitalii Klitschko, Serhiy Lysak, Oleh Synehubov, Ron Popeski, Dan Peleschuk, Sandra Maler, William Mallard, Toby Chopra, Frances Kerry Organizations: Russian, REUTERS, Interior, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv, Russia, Dnipropetrovsk, Dnipro, Russian, Kharkiv, Ukraine's, Moscow

☆ Russia tries to signal normalcy as Ukraine forces advance
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Vitalii Hnidyi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

But corpses of Russian soldiers and burnt-out armoured vehicles lining the roadside in villages newly recaptured by Ukrainian troops attested to Kyiv's biggest advances since last year. Several bodies of Russian soldiers lay in the streets of ruined and depopulated villages. Ukrainian troops in Storozheve told Reuters they had killed around 50 Russians and captured four there. Kyiv says any elections staged by Russians on Ukrainian territory would be invalid and illegal. Ukrainian troops have yet to reach the heaviest Russian defensive fortifications, which are set back from the front line.

Persons: Oleksandr Ratushniak, Moscow's, Oleksii Hromov, Vladimir Putin, Ella Pamfilova, Lloyd Austin, Austin, Vitalii, Pavel Polityuk, Peter Graff, Frances Kerry Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Ukrainian, Troops, TASS, Defence Ministry, Federal Security Service, U.S . Defense, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Storozheve, Donetsk region, UKRAINE, Russia, Ukrainian, Neskuchne, Moscow, Mala Tokmachka, Bakhmut, Europe, Kyiv, Brussels, U.S, Washington

☆ Russian soldiers' corpses line road into liberated Ukrainian village
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Vitalii Hnidyi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] A view shows the newly liberated village Storozheve near the front line in Donetsk region, Ukraine, June 14, 2023. REUTERS/Oleksandr RatushniakSTOROZHEVE, Ukraine, June 14 (Reuters) - The road into the newly liberated Ukrainian village of Storozheve is lined with the corpses of Russian soldiers and burnt-out armoured vehicles. Some of the dead Russian soldiers lay on the dusty ground beside the husks of their vehicles when Reuters journalists reached the village on Wednesday. A photograph posted online on Monday showed Ukrainian soldiers holding up the yellow and blue Ukrainian flag in front of a damaged home in Storozheve. The soldiers said about 50 Russian soldiers were killed in a "mopping-up operation" and four were taken prisoner.

Persons: Oleksandr Ratushniak STOROZHEVE, Artem, Vitlii Hnyidyi, Timothy Heritage, William Maclean Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Donetsk region, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Storozheve, Neskuchne

☆ Exclusive: Flag flies over newly liberated village, confirming Ukraine advancing
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Vitalii Hnidyi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NESKUCHNE, Ukraine, June 13 (Reuters) - Reuters journalists gained access to the newly liberated Ukrainian village of Neskuchne on Tuesday, confirming that Ukraine's forces have been advancing in the early phase of a counteroffensive against Russia's invasion. A Reuters team reached the ruined village in southeastern Ukraine days after Kyiv said its forces had pushed out Russian troops. The yellow and blue Ukrainian flag was fluttering in the breeze over the ruins of a grocery store where it was placed. "Three days ago Russian forces were still here. After seven months of a major Russian offensive that yielded scant gains, Ukraine began its counterassault last week.

Persons: birdsong, crump, Artem, Vitalii, Tom Balmforth, Felix Hoske, Timothy Heritage, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Reuters, Kyiv, Thomson Locations: NESKUCHNE, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Neskuchne, Russia, Glory

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