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Ukrainian authorities say the Russian occupation's administration in Mariupol has shut down the city for quarantine over a possible cholera outbreak.

In the Luhansk region there are many cities with a situation comparable to Mariupol: now the Russians are levelling Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk.” But now the situation has worsened a little for us again," Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Gaidai told national television. A Russian diplomatic source told news agency Interfax there had been no choice but to cancel the visit. A potential health crisis in Mariupol is exacerbated by the fact that most of the city’s infrastructure has been obliterated by Russian air strikes. "We can't just break off diplomatic relations and stop talking to each other." - A Ukrainian counter-attack is “blunting” the “operational momentum” of Russian forces in the contested city of Severodonetsk, the UK Ministry of Defence said A few months later, the exhausted, under-supplied French troops eventually retreated and were crushed by the Russian army. It also demonstrated "he has total trust in his army" and served to heighten the contrast between his leadership style and that of his Russian opponent Vladimir Putin. Russia's Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities website appeared to have been hacked on Sunday, with an internet search for the site leading to a "Glory to Ukraine" sign in Ukrainian. The position of Ukrainian forces fighting in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk has "worsened a little", the regional governor said today. The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has said the body is "developing the modalities" for an international mission of experts it hopes to send to Zaporizhzhia, the Russian-held nuclear power plant in south-east Ukraine. Putin has said that Ukraine could use the ports of Mykolayiv and Odesa for food exports, and insisted that Russia would not use the mine clearance situation to launch "some attacks from the sea".

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Britain said Monday it will send Ukraine multiple launch rocket systems that can strike targets up to 50 miles away, despite a threat from Russian President ...

If Russian forces were to take control of the city, it would be a symbolically significant win for the Kremlin after its troops have struggled in other parts of the country. Schinas thinks that many of these refugees may in the long run not return to their homeland. Earlier, he said that Ukraine had clawed back territory in recent days to control about half the city after Russia held about 70 percent last week. Let us continue to stand shoulder to shoulder as an alliance.” The world was slow to respond, he said. “The world has come together in support of the defense of Ukraine against a determined invader,” Milley said. In a televised interview at the weekend, Putin threatened to order wider attacks if the West sends long-range weapons, although he did not elaborate. Britain said Monday it will send Ukraine multiple-launch rocket systems that can strike targets up to 50 miles away, as Ukrainian forces seek to fend off Russian attacks in the country’s east. An estimated 20 million tons of wheat are stuck in Ukraine, unable to be shipped through Black Sea ports. “Little thought is given to practical ways to promote close ties to the E.U. in many areas and strengthen Ukraine,” he said. “The same goal unites us — a strong, independent and economically successful Ukraine,” he said in an interview with Kronen-Zeitung. “All our efforts are mainly focused on ending the Russian war of aggression. Speaking after a visit to front-line areas in Ukraine’s east on Sunday, Zelensky said things could become very difficult if Russian breaks through in the Donbas region.

Britain joined the United States in pledging advanced rocket systems, despite President Vladimir Putin's warnings against supplying the weapons.

At a bar in Kyiv, patrons watched the World Cup qualifier match between Wales and Ukraine, a contest delayed three months by the Russian invasion. Russian forces stepped up artillery attacks on Sievierodonetsk, said Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk. The attack has set Ukrainian forces back after a counteroffensive. "We still need to understand that the war is in an intense phase," she said. The barrages have exacted a heavy toll on the Ukrainian army: the Ukrainian government has said that as many as 100 soldiers are dying every day. He also offered a cryptic statement of support, saying: “We brought something to the military. The Ukrainian supply lines into the area, along roads that run through plains and are exposed to nearby Russian troops, are often attacked. Residents erected wooden barricades on the road leading into the town in the first week of the war but they proved no match for Russian tanks. Dmytro Orlov, whom Ukraine recognizes as the legitimate mayor of Enerhodar, wrote on Telegram that Russians are trying to tackle the budding insurgency by targeting regular civilians. In the past month, Ukrainian partisans claim, insurgents have attacked Russian trains and killed dozens of Russian soldiers, as well as supporting the Ukrainian military's counterattacks. Enerhodar had a population of 50,000 before the war and was home to many of the people who work at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s largest. In recent days, Ukrainian forces have launched a series of counterattacks in the regions. In a rarity, both Ukrainian and Russian officials confirmed the blasts, which struck deep inside Russian-controlled territory.

Russia has begun turning over the bodies of Ukrainian fighters killed at the Azovstal steelworks, the fortress-like plant in the destroyed city of Mariupol.

Asked about the war raging on the European continent, Shay said, "It is a very sad situation.” Viacheslav Drofa said the remains of his elder brother, Dmitry Lisen, did not appear to be among those recovered so far. It said the two sides exchanged 320 bodies in all, each getting back 160 sets of remains. But relatives of soldiers killed at the plant discussed the process with The Associated Press. Zelenskyy said more than than 2,500 fighters who defended the plant are being held prisoner by the Russians, and Ukraine is working on getting them released It gave no details on where the bodies were recovered from. The last Azovstal holdouts finally relinquished the plant in May, marching out without weapons and carrying their wounded. The mother of a soldier killed in a Russian airstrike on the plant said the Azov Regiment telephoned her and said that her son’s body might be among those that were transferred to Kyiv. The mother did not want her or her son to be identified by name, saying she feared that discussing the recovery process might disrupt it. The brother of an Azov fighter missing and feared dead in the steelworks told the AP that at least two trucks of bodies from Azovstal were transferred to a military hospital in Kyiv for identification. The recovery of the fighters’ remains from the Azovstal ruins has not been announced by the Ukrainian government, and Russian officials have not commented. Meanwhile, Russian forces continued to fight for control of Sievierodonetsk, an eastern Ukrainian city that is key to Moscow’s goal of completing the capture of the industrial Donbas region. Dozens of fighters’ bodies recovered from the bombed-out mill’s now Russian-occupied ruins have been transferred to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, where DNA testing is underway to identify the remains, said Maksym Zhorin, a military commander and former leader of the Azov Regiment.

Russian troops have resumed an offensive on the northern approaches to the key city of Sloviansk amid heavy fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine ...

- Russia increases missile and air attacks: Ukraine's Defense Ministry said Russian forces launched missiles and airstrikes against a number of targets across Ukraine, as they try to break down Ukrainian defenses and hit key infrastructure. - Russia "withdraws" Black Sea ships: The Ukrainian Navy said ships of the Russian Black Sea fleet have withdrawn tomore than 100 kilometers (about 65 miles) from Ukrainian shoresas a result of its attacks with missiles and drones. - Grain storage hit by missile: The EU's foreign policy chiefcondemned a Russian missile strikeon a Ukrainian grain terminal at the weekend in the southern port city of Mykolaiv. Josep Borrell said the strike was at odds with recent pledges by Russian President Vladimir Putin to offer safe passage through the Black Sea from Ukrainian ports for merchant shipping.

Russia is intensifying its efforts to gain control of eastern Ukraine, with heavy fighting in the Donbas regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

He and another civilian, Ivan Zorya, were killed by Russian soldiers, eyewitnesses say, as they tried to deliver medicines and other supplies to people in the community. There were no other cars or military vehicles nearby at the time, according to the eyewitnesses. “The fiercest battles continue here,” Serhiy Hayday, head of Luhansk Regional Military Administration, said on Monday morning. “The fiercest battles continue here,” Serhiy Hayday, head of Luhansk Regional Military Administration, said on Monday morning. “Their real target is the economy of Ukraine and the civilian population,” he said. “There are indications from Ukraine regarding their concern about interruptions in the supply chain of spare parts to Zaporizhzhia NPP. This means now at least five of the seven indispensable pillars of nuclear safety and security have been compromised at the site. "The weapons are coming. “The Russians have amassed huge reserves. “Every day we evacuate people, even from the frontline. “The Russians do not control this road, but the entire route is being shelled,” he said. The UK Ministry of Defense also said that heavy fighting continues in the eastern city of Severodonetsk and that Russian forces continue to push towards the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region. One missile was destroyed by Ukraine’s air defense unit, and the rest hit “infrastructure facilities in the north of the Ukrainian capital,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a statement.

Ukraine claims to have killed more than 30000 Russian troops and destroyed thousands of tanks and other pieces of armor.

In the backdrop of these failures, Russian officials publicly state that Moscow is committed to its “ special military operation” and will see it through till its goals in Ukraine have been achieved. “Russia is now achieving tactical success in the Donbas. Russian forces have generated and maintained momentum and currently appear to hold the initiative over Ukrainian opposition. His work has been featured in Business Insider, Sandboxx, and SOFREP. “Russia has achieved these recent tactical successes at significant resource cost, and by concentrating force and fires on a single part of the overall campaign. “Measured against Russia’s original plan, none of the strategic objectives have been achieved. Staunch Ukrainian resistance and the failure to secure Hostomel airfield in the first 24 hours led to Russian offensive operations being repulsed.

Zelenskiy says Sievierodonetsk and sister city Lysychansk are 'dead cities' as UN warns war is creating a human trafficking crisis.

US authorities have charged the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich with exporting two planes of US origin to Russia without a licence. Ukraine needs 60 multiple rocket launchers – many more than the handful promised so far by the UK and US – to have a chance of defeating Russia, according to an aide to the country’s presidency. The Ukrainian navy said it has pushed back a fleet of Russian warships more than 100km from its Black Sea coast. Russian officials in occupied Mariupol have shut down the southern port city for quarantine over a possible cholera outbreak, according to Ukrainian authorities. Russia has begun handing over bodies of Ukrainian fighters killed at the Azovstal steelworks, the fortress-like plant in the destroyed city of Mariupol where theirlast-ditch standbecame a symbol of resistance against Moscow’s invasion. “Our heroes do not give up positions in Sievierodonetsk. In the city, fierce street fighting continues,” he said in his latest national address, adding “the Ukrainian Donbas stands strong.”Sievierodonetsk and its sister city of Lysychansk “are dead cities today,”Zelenskiy said.

The original goal was to seize three major cities: Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odessa. Russian troops had to withdraw from Kyiv and Kharkiv. And [they] have not been able ...

It's not just Russia's war against Ukraine. It's really a Russian war against the West," he added. He said it is "too soon" to tell which side is winning. Referring to historical events, he said the Soviet Union had not needed to be appeased to withdraw from Afghanistan in 1989 or for the Cuban missile crisis to end. "Over 100 days, the Russians have pulled back their aims at least tactically, perhaps not strategically, quite a lot. - "Over 100 days, the Russians have pulled back their aims at least tactically, perhaps not strategically, quite a lot. Courtney said there's a chance that the war could lead to Russian President Vladimir Putin's ouster from office.