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Their report notes that the Russian occupiers have made limited progress only on the outskirts of Severodonetsk and in the Metiolkino area. Read also: Apart from Severodonetsk, Russian army trying to advance in Kharkiv Oblast, says UK intelligence On other axes, the Russian army has suffered heavy losses in both men and material, which makes further advances on other critical fronts impossible for the moment. The ISW noted that the invaders will be able to completely capture Severodonetsk only if they concentrate most of their forces there, meaning they would need to draw back their units to other areas...

Ukraine is advancing on all fronts today as more ground has been made in Donetsk, Kherson, and large actions have now resumed again in the Kharkiv area signaled with large barrages and the capture of multiple prisoners. The only place the Ukrainians have not advanced in is Severodonetsk; there heavy fighting still drags on with neother side close to a victory. Ukraine has the upper hand, let's hope they can keep it!

Ukraine has made significant advances close to Kherson to the point of controlling the water supply in Crimea. Professor Michael Clarke, who specialises in defence studies, explained Ukraine is within striking distance of the supply. Speaking to Sky News, he said: "The Ukrainians are conducting quite a big offensive to take back Kherson. "They've opened up a 50-mile front to the northeast of Kherson and there are reports over the last 24 hours that the Ukrainians may have got as far as Kiselivka which is quite close to Kherson. "They may be within striking distance of Nova Kakhovk which is...

British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced that the UK will send its first long-range missiles to Ukraine despite a threat by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the West against the delivery of these weapons to Kiev. In a statement late Sunday, Wallace said: "As Russia's tactics change, so must our support to Ukraine. These highly capable multiple-launch rocket systems will enable our Ukrainian friends to better protect themselves against the brutal use of long-range artillery, which Putin's forces have used indiscriminately to flatten cities." He said that the UK is supplying "vital weapons they (Ukrainians) need to defend their...

Ukraine is retaking the key city of Severodonetsk in tonight's current Ukraine War Footage with The Enforcer on Day 100. For 100 days the Ukrainian Army has held back the hordes of Russian soldiers sent to invade the nation, and today we will be celebrating this during the stream, and also discussing tonight's news. The Ukrainians are holding the Russians or Pushing them back on all fronts, and have managed to recapture half of Severodonetsk over the last day. The Russians once again appear to be on the back foot which is wonderful news to add to this Day...

A Ukrainian air force MiG-29 fighter shot down one of the Russian air force’s best jets—an Su-35—near Russian-occupied Kherson on Friday, according to the Ukrainian defense ministry. The dramatic shoot-down, which reportedly took place as the Su-35 was chasing down Ukrainian attack planes, signaled an even more dramatic development on the ground. Ukrainian army formations supported by American-made M-777 howitzers crossed the Inhulets River around the town of Davydiv Brid, 50 miles northeast of Kherson. The Russians fell back to a trio of towns a few miles to the southwest. Towns whose defenses the Ukrainian general staff described as...

KYIV/MARIUPOL (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Monday it had held off the latest assault on an eastern city that has become the main target of Moscow's offensive since Russian forces finally seized Mariupol last week. Russian forces tried to storm Sievierodonetsk, but were unsuccessful and retreated, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office said. The city, on the banks of the Siverskiy Donets river that winds through eastern Ukraine, has been the main Russian target in recent days as Moscow tries to encircle Ukrainian forces in the east and fully capture the Luhansk and Donetsk provinces. In Mariupol, where hundreds of Ukrainian fighters...

Ukraine’s military worked Tuesday to evacuate its remaining fighters from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol where three months of Russian bombing has left the besieged port city in ruins. Ukrainian officials said more than 260 fighters were evacuated Monday. Fifty-three seriously injured fighters were taken to a hospital in Novoazovsk, east of Mariupol, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said. Novoazovsk is under the control of Russian troops and Russian-backed separatists. Another 211 fighters were taken to the town of Olenivka, an area also controlled by Russian-backed separatists, Malyar said, adding that the evacuees would be subject to a...

LVIV, Ukraine: Ukraine’s IT sector is booming despite the Russian invasion. Workers with stickers on their laptops recline on beach chairs outside a warehouse for startups in the west Ukraine city of Lviv giving off major Silicon Valley vibes. But the atmosphere inside is different. Through the glass doors of the complex, young Ukrainians zig-zag between stacks of bulletproof vests and cardboard boxes filled with helmets ready for the front. They are part of Ukraine’s burgeoning tech sector which was forced to adapt after Russia’s invasion and has become key to supporting the war effort. “Most tech companies had...

The war in Ukraine is driving a wedge between Russian speakers in Germany. Putin’s critics and supporters are fiercely divided. The conflict came to a head on May 9, which marked 77 years since Nazi Germany's surrender. Barricades, strict regulations, and thousands of police on duty: German authorities predicted May 9 would get heated. Commemorated as "Victory Day” in many former Soviet countries, the date marks 77 years since the surrender of Nazi Germany. But due to the war in Ukraine, the occasion took on a whole new meaning. The divide between Putin’s opponents and supporters was brought into...

Ukraine's armed forces released a video on Sunday (May 15) saying it said showed servicemen firing new U.S. M-777 howitzers at the front line in the east of the country. The video showed its soldiers firing an artillery gun. Reuters could not independently verify the video. The U.S. embassy in Kyiv said on Sunday that Washington has delivered all but one of the 90 artillery pieces they were due to send. The M-777 howitzer consignment is part of a huge outlay of weapons from Washington to help Ukraine fend off Russia's invasion, which began on Feb. 24. The M-777 is...

Ukrainian troops have reached the Russian border to the north of Kharkiv, the regional governor said today Video showed soldiers carrying a border marker to the frontier after pushing Putin's forces out of the country Russia has now all-but abandoned efforts to seize Ukraine's second-city, having already failed to take Kyiv Jens Stoltenburg, head of NATO alliance, said on Sunday that Kharkiv failure shows Ukraine can 'win' the war Ukrainian troops have reached the Russian border after successfully pushing Putin's forces away from the country's second-city of Kharkiv, as Putin's invasion continues to falter. Soldiers carrying a border marker painted...

KYIV — The front lines in the Ukraine war had shifted on Sunday as Russia made some advances in the fiercely contested eastern Donbas region and the Ukrainian military waged a counteroffensive near the strategic Russian-held city of Izium. ….snip Keeping up pressure on Izium and Russian supply lines will make it harder for Moscow to encircle battle-hardened Ukrainian troops on the eastern front in the Donbas. Izium straddles the Donets river, about 120 km (75 miles) from Kharkiv on the main highway heading southeast. “The hottest spot remains the Izium direction,” regional governor Oleh Sinegubov said in comments aired...

The Russians betray their allies in day 80's current Ukraine invasion info with The Enforcer. With the Kharkiv front now in an accellerated collapse, the Russians, along with DPR and LPR troopsare beginning to retreat. The Russians are not allowing the DPR and LPR troops into Russia, threatening to shoot any who dare try. Meanwhile heavy fighting has continued in the south between Izyum and Severodonetsk, where the Russians are still attempting in vain for a breakthrough.

Ukrainian forces have launched a counteroffensive in Izyum, according to Oleh Synegubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration. Speaking in a video posted to telegram, he said that Russian forces were retreating in some directions. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has not confirmed the move. Russia seized control of the city of Izyum on 1 April and has occupied it since.

“Today is the 79th day,” Yevhen Kryvoruchko says as he welcomed visitors into the school basement that has been his home since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. Then he ducked down an uneven flight of stairs into the labyrinthine cellar. It was dark, chilly, damp – and home to 12 people, five cats, a dog and a hamster who have been living under School No. 172 since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24. From the basement, Mr. Kryvoruchko and the other residents could hear the artillery and air strikes that battered the apartment...

Official Ukrainian statements, independent news reports, local social media, and RF state-controlled news platforms on Friday said UAF advance elements had closed on Ukraine’s border with Russia at multiple locations, Fighting according to those reports was in progress for the Ukraine-side border villages of Lipsy, Vesele, Kozacha Lopan’, Pitomik and Russki Tishy, all to Kharkiv’s north. ….snip Video images made public by the RF state-controlled news platform Readovka on May 13 showed scattered mortar or artillery strikes purportedly hitting fields and homes near the Solokhi, some 10 km inside Russia. There was no outside confirmation of the bombardment, but...

The Azov Regiment on May 10 published photos of badly wounded Ukrainian soldiers who are still holding out at the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, even in the face of daily attacks by Russian forces. “The while civilized world must see the conditions in which our wounded and maimed defenders of Mariupol are, and act,” a message accompanying the photos reads. The wounded are being treated in poor sanitary conditions, lacking sterile bandages, medical supplies, and even food, the Azov soldiers said. They urged the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross to act on their core values...

Ukrainian forces around Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, appear to have pushed Russian troops east past Ternova, a settlement on the Russian border. If confirmed, the Ukrainians’ liberation of Ternova could mark an inflection point in Russia’s 10-week-old wider war in Ukraine. In late March, Ukrainian forces drove Russian invaders from northern Ukraine. Now it appears they’re driving the invaders from northeastern Ukraine, too. Heavy fighting continues around Izium, south of Kharkiv—and also around Kherson on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. The Russians late last month briefly advanced around Kherson before stalling out. And Russian battalions more recently have captured a few...

Russian state media has begun openly criticising the state of Russia's military as its Donbass offensive stalls Vladimir Solovyov, prominent Putin puppet, bemoaned 'shameful' length of time for weapons to reach troopsMikhail Khodaryonok said men are being sent to fight with 'weapons of yesteryear' and that even a much-feared general mobilisation won't help because the country lacks reserves to form new military units Aleksandr Sladkov, another propagandist, said commanders are 'shamefully indecisive' and Russian troops cannot displace Ukrainian forces because they are fighting 'one-to-one' with no numerical advantage....