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☆ Russia Says Ukraine Has Launched Attacks on Front Lines
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Ian Lovett | Georgi Kantchev | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ukraine Launched Biggest Attacks in Months, Moscow Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Ian Lovett | Georgi Kantchev | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Missiles Kill Three in Kyiv as Russia Claims to Thwart New Border Incursion
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Ian Lovett | Laurence Norman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Drones Hit Residences in Moscow for First Time in Ukraine War
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Thomas Grove | Ian Lovett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Ukraine Races to Forge New Army Ahead of Offensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Ian Lovett | Nikita Nikolaienko | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ukraine and Russia have been engaged in grueling fighting for months over the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. WSJ explains how the city turned into the bloodiest and one of the longest battles of the war in Ukraine. Photo illustration: Adam AdadaIn a valley far from the front lines last week, several men practiced dropping a half-full bottle of water from a small aerial drone, as though it were a grenade. Others fired rifles at targets 100 yards away. A third group set off for a trek through the surrounding hills, which burst with white and yellow flowers.

☆ Ukraine Thwarts Russian Missile Barrage
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Ian Lovett | Drew Hinshaw | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV, Ukraine—Ukrainian officials said 18 incoming Russian missiles were shot down early Tuesday morning, thwarting a strike on the capital. The barrage was fired at around 3:30 a.m. from the north, south and east, according to Ukraine’s air force, and all of the missiles were shot down, including six ballistic Kinzhal missiles. A number of drones—including surveillance drones and Iranian-made Shahed suicide drones—were also downed, according to the general staff.

☆ ‘Bakhmut Trap’: Ukrainian Advances Vindicate Defense of Besieged City
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Ian Lovett | Stephen Kalin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV, Ukraine—For months, Ukrainian troops in the eastern city of Bakhmut have been on the defensive, hunkering in basements and inching backward in the face of withering artillery fire and waves of infantry assaults. Last week, Ukraine launched surprise counterattacks that regained several square miles of land on the western outskirts of the city, easing Russia’s chokehold on critical supply routes.

☆ Russia Launches Fresh Wave of Attacks Against Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Ian Lovett | Thomas Grove | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV, Ukraine—Russian forces launched a wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine over the weekend, while a Ukrainian counterattack continued on the outskirts of Bakhmut, killing a Russian commander and his deputy. Russia’s Defense Ministry said Sunday that it had launched a missile attack in western Ukraine’s Ternopil region. The missiles hit and killed Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed arms depots and Western military systems that Ukraine was planning to send to the front line, the ministry said.

☆ The Navy SEAL Who Went to Ukraine Because He Couldn’t Stop Fighting
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Ian Lovett | Brett Forrest | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Daniel Swift’s nerves were shot. By the start of 2019, his Navy SEAL colleagues said, he was hardly eating or sleeping. He had separated from his wife. A court had barred him from seeing his four children, and he was facing legal charges for false imprisonment and domestic battery.

☆ Ukraine’s Holiest Site Is Battleground in Campaign to Erase Russian Influence
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Ian Lovett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV—For years, Pavlo Lebid embodied the Russian Orthodox Church’s power in Ukraine’s capital. One of the highest-ranking officials in the church’s Ukrainian branch, with the title “Metropolitan,” he rode around in luxury cars and was captured on video questioning the authority of police to ticket him. His portrait was painted onto a wall of a cathedral at the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, Ukraine’s holiest site, where he is abbot. Residents dubbed him “Pasha Mercedes.”

☆ Russia Evacuates Civilians From Parts of Ukraine Ahead of Kyiv Counteroffensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Ian Lovett | Ann M. Simmons | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV, Ukraine—Russian-installed officials ordered civilians in 18 occupied communities near the front line to evacuate as both sides appear to be bracing for a widely expected Ukrainian offensive. Yevgeniy Balitsky , the Russian-installed head of occupied parts of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, said the evacuation was needed to “strengthen security,” amid an uptick in Ukrainian attacks. The city of Enerhodar, next to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, is among the communities being evacuated.

☆ Russia Tightens Grip in Occupied Zone as Locals Await Ukraine’s Forces
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Ian Lovett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine—Police board public buses in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol and question anyone from outside the area. Patients without Russian passports say they are being denied care at hospitals in the city. Residents say they avoid speaking about the war in public, aware that Russian agents are looking for pro-Ukrainian partisans. Moscow is tightening its grip on occupied parts of Ukraine, ahead of an expected Ukrainian offensive.

☆ Victory Elusive for Russians in Grinding Battle in Ukraine’s East
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Ian Lovett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A VILLAGE OUTSIDE AVDIIVKA, Ukraine—The Russian assaults begin at 5 a.m. and last all day, according to Ukrainian troops in and around the eastern city of Avdiivka. Inside the city, airstrikes level buildings and drones drop grenades. On the outskirts, Russian artillery pummels Ukrainian trenches, then infantry try to advance. Then they send two more groups of five, who climb over the corpses of the others,” said Yuriy, a 22-year-old Ukrainian soldier in the area. “They’ve gained some territory, but it’s not strategically significant.”

☆ Crimea Oil Depot Hit in Suspected Ukrainian Drone Strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Ian Lovett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An apartment block in the central Ukrainian city of Uman was hit by missiles launched by Russia, as Moscow fired a wave of strikes across Ukraine. Shelling blamed on Ukraine also struck a village in the Russian-controlled part of Donetsk. Photo: Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty ImagesZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine—A drone struck an oil depot in Crimea, according to the Russian-installed officials in the region, while Ukraine’s defense minister said the country was making its final preparations before the start of its long-awaited counteroffensive. Mikhail Razvozhaev, the Moscow-installed governor of Crimea, which Russian forces seized from Ukraine in 2014, said that four fuel tanks in Sevastopol had been hit by two unmanned aerial vehicles, according to Russian state media. Videos of the scene showed huge plumes of black smoke billowing upward near the city’s port.

☆ Russia Says Drone Boats Attack Black Sea Fleet in Crimea
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Bojan Pancevski | Ian Lovett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Three Ukrainian unmanned boats attacked a Russian-controlled military port in Crimea and an aerial drone crashed in the Moscow area, Russian authorities said, while Moscow escalated its criticism of a deal that allows for the export of Ukrainian grain. The drone boats attacked the base of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, a key military port city on the Crimean Peninsula, said a spokesman for Russia’s Defense Ministry. Local governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said the fleet repelled the attack and no damage was caused.

☆ Ukrainian Forces Recapture Land Across Key River in South, Think Tank Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Ian Lovett | Ann M. Simmons | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV, Ukraine—Ukrainian forces have established a presence on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River in the southern Kherson region, according to the Institute for the Study of War, in what would be a significant step in Ukraine’s effort to reclaim occupied territory. The Washington-based think tank cited geolocated footage from Russian military bloggers, who in recent days have been openly discussing whether their side had lost control of the eastern bank of the Dnipro. Russian troops withdrew to the east side of the river in November, after months of Ukrainian strikes had stretched their supply lines to the regional capital of Kherson, on the river’s western bank.

☆ Russia Mistakenly Bombs Own City
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Georgi Kantchev | Ian Lovett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia said it had mistakenly bombed its own territory late Thursday as Ukraine’s Western backers were preparing to meet to discuss future military deliveries to the country to assist in Kyiv’s expected counteroffensive. Moscow said that one of its jet fighters had accidentally dropped a weapon over the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border, causing an explosion and leaving several injured.

☆ Ukraine Pilots Stretch Soviet-Era Helicopters to Their Limits in Daring Assaults
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Ian Lovett | Photographs Serhii Korovayny For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The two Soviet-era helicopters sped toward the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka just after dawn, flying 20 feet above the ground to keep the low-tech machines off radar. Three miles from the city, the Ukrainian pilots climbed to 100 feet and unleashed a volley of rockets onto several industrial buildings north of the city. As they headed back to the airfield, they got word that Russian jet fighters were racing toward them. They landed immediately to avoid being easy targets.

☆ Ukraine to Investigate Video Purporting to Show Russian Forces Beheading Soldier
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Ian Lovett | Bojan Pancevski | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ukraine Resumes Electricity Exports, as Russian Strikes on Grid Lose Efficacy
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Ian Lovett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A worker walks through a missile-damaged electricity substation that supplies consumers in multiple cities as part of the national grid, in central Ukraine. DNIPRO, Ukraine—Ukraine will resume exporting electricity, a signal the country has withstood Russia’s monthslong assault on its power grid, while Moscow’s forces continued pushing to seize full control of the eastern city of Bakhmut. “The Ukrainian energy system has been operating for almost two months without consumer restrictions, with a reserve of capacity,” Herman Halushchenko, Ukraine’s energy minister, said Friday on Telegram, after signing paperwork to allow electricity exports to resume. “The most difficult winter has passed.”

☆ Russian Drones Hit Odessa as Ukraine Makes Fresh Diplomatic Push
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Ian Lovett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Kyiv, Ukraine—Russian drones struck the southern port city of Odessa overnight, while Finland was poised to officially join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Tuesday. Russian forces launched 17 Iranian-made Shahed drones from the east coast of the Sea of Azov into Ukrainian territory, according to Ukraine’s air force. Fourteen of the drones were shot down, Ukrainian officials said, but several state-owned enterprises in Odessa were hit.

☆ Nuclear Plant at Risk as Ukraine and Russia Gear Up for Spring Offensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Ian Lovett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Military activity is increasing around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear-power plant, according to international atomic energy officials, as Ukrainian and Russian forces gear up for an expected increase in fighting this spring. “The situation is not improving—it is obvious that military activity is increasing in this whole region,” Rafael Grossi , director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Agency, said Wednesday after a visit to the plant. “There’s a significant increase in the number of troops in the region and there is open talk about offensives, counteroffensives and so on.”

☆ Fact Check-Image of Elon Musk and Mary Barra holding hands is AI-generated
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

An image appearing to show the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, and the CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra, holding hands is not authentic and was created by artificial intelligence. The image seemingly shows Musk dressed in a black denim jacket and wearing a black tie holding hands with Barra who is wearing a black leather jacket. Lovett told Reuters that he created the image via the website Midjourney – an AI-image generator that creates images via text prompts. “In the case of the Elon Musk image with Mary Barra, it tends to give them similar facial structures and almost melds them together in a way that makes them appear as though they were siblings.”VERDICTMissing context. The image was created via the AI-generating website, Midjourney, the creator of the image told Reuters.

☆ Ukraine Says Bakhmut Tactics Will Give It Advantages Elsewhere
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Ian Lovett | Thomas Grove | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ukraine’s efforts to exhaust and deplete Russian forces in the eastern city of Bakhmut will help it reclaim other territory in the country, a Ukrainian commander in the area said. “Our main task is to wear down the overwhelming forces of the enemy and inflict heavy losses on them,” Ukrainian Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy wrote on Telegram below a video in which he delivered a similar message to troops. “It will create the necessary conditions to help liberate Ukrainian land and speed up our victory.”

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