Ukrainian officials say Russian shelling and missile strikes killed at least eight civilians people over the past 24 hours and wounded 25 more.
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Governor in eastern Ukraine urges evacuation of 350,000 residents
Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said that getting people out of Donetsk province is necessary to save lives and enable the Ukrainian army better to defend towns from the Russian advance.
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Russia claims control of pivotal eastern Ukrainian province
The complete seizure of Luhansk would provide Russian troops with a stronger base from which to press their advance in the Donbas.
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Russians press assault on eastern Ukrainian city
Ukrainian fighters have spent weeks trying to defend Lysychansk.
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Russian missiles kill at least 21 near Odesa in Ukraine
The airstrikes followed the pullout of Russian forces from Snake Island, a move that was expected to potentially ease the threat to the city.
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WNBA’s Brittney Griner goes on trial in Russian court
The athlete’s detention and trial come at an extraordinarily low point in Moscow-Washington relations.
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Russian forces leave Snake Island, keep up assault in eastern Ukraine
Snake Island sits along a busy shipping lane, and Russia took control of it in the opening days of the war in the apparent hope of using it as a staging ground for an assault on Odesa.
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Treasury Department blocks $1 billion trust owned by Russian oligarch
The size of the trust and the complexity of the investigation made this a unique case, according to the department.
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Russians fight to encircle Ukraine’s last eastern stronghold
Meanwhile, shock reverberated from a Russian airstrike on a shopping mall that killed at least 18 in the center of the country this week.
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France’s Macron says Russia ‘can not and should not’ win in Ukraine after strike on mall
Ukrainian leaders say they need more and better weapons if they are to hold off and even drive back Russia, which is pressing an all-out assault in Ukraine’s eastern region of the Donbas.