Wednesday, March 22, 2023

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Ukrainian official warns of ‘catastrophe’ in captured city

A Ukrainian regional official warned Friday of deteriorating living conditions in a city captured by Russian forces two weeks ago, saying Sievierodonetsk is without water, power or a working sewage system while the bodies of the dead decompose in...

Ukrainian army to leave battered city to avoid encirclement

After weeks of ferocious fighting, Ukrainian forces will retreat from a besieged city in the country’s east to avoid encirclement, a regional governor said Friday.The city of Sievierodonetsk, the administrative center of the Luhansk region, has faced relentless Russian...

Eastern Ukraine region weathers bombardment

Russian attacks laid down a curtain of fire Tuesday across areas of eastern Ukraine where pockets of resistance are denying Moscow full military control of the region, almost four months after the Kremlin unleashed an invasion.“Today everything that can...

US is there for India: Biden admin

The US is there for India, the Biden administration has said, reiterating that New Delhi’s relationship with Moscow developed over several decades when Washington was “not prepared or able to be a partner of choice” for the Indian government.State...

Russian, Ukrainian troops fight in key city

Russian troops pushed farther into a key eastern Ukrainian city and fought street by street with Kyiv’s forces Monday in a battle the mayor said has left the city “completely ruined” and driven tends of thousands from their homes.Military...

Ukraine: 200 bodies found in basement in Mariupol’s ruins

Workers digging through the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol found 200 bodies in the basement, Ukrainian authorities, as more horrors come to light in the ruined city that has seen some of the worst suffering of the...

Russians withdraw from Kharkiv, batter east

Russian troops are withdrawing from Ukraine’s second-largest city after weeks of heavy bombardment, the Ukrainian military said Saturday, as Kyiv and Moscow’s forces engaged in a grinding battle for the country’s eastern industrial heartland.Ukraine’s general staff said the Russians...

Ukraine puts Russian solider accused of war crime on trial

The trial of a Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian civilian opened Friday, the first war crimes trial since Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor.Scores of journalists packed inside a small courtroom in the Ukrainian capital where the suspect...

Ukrainians make gains in east; stop Russian gas

Ukraine’s natural gas pipeline operator on Wednesday stopped Russian shipments through a key hub in the east of the country, while its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Kyiv’s military had made small gains, pushing Russian forces out of four villages...

Russia pounds Ukraine’s vital port of Odesa

Russian forces pounded away at the vital port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, as part of an apparent effort to disrupt supply lines and weapons shipments. On the other end of the southern coast, they hammered a steel...