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    Vladimir Putin prepares Russia for 'Forever War' as efforts to vilify the West continue

    "That Prigozhin rebelled was symptomatic of many social problems, but the way he advanced toward Moscow unhindered also demonstrated nervousness about whether all army units would fight," said Alexander Baunov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. "Putin clearly did not want to give an order to fire he was unsure would be implemented."

    Ukrainian tanks join attacks along a 60-mile front, Russia says

    The Russian Defence Ministry said 26 attacks involving over a thousand troops and up to 40 tanks near Soledar on Thursday had been repulsed. In one area, Russian forces had fallen back to "more favourable positions" near a reservoir northwest of Bakhmut.

    Russia says it repelled surge of Ukrainian attacks in the east

    The same statement did indicate however that Russian forces had fallen back a bit in one area of the front, taking up what it described as "more favourable positions" near the Berkhivka reservoir northwest of Bakhmut. Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose troops have done the bulk of the fighting in and around Bakhmut, said via his press service that what the defence ministry had described was in fact a "rout".

    Ukraine says latest Russian assault on Bakhmut beaten back

    Officials meanwhile recovered the bodies of two British volunteers, killed trying to help evacuate people from the eastern warzone. And the southern city of Odesa suffered a massive power cut affecting half a million households after an accident at a war-damaged electrical substation.

    Russian shelling kills 5 in tough eastern Ukraine combat

    The casualties included a woman who was killed and three others who were wounded by the Russian shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city in the country's northeast, according to regional Gov. Oleh Syniyehubov.

    Russia launches air attacks on Ukraine after Germany, U.S. agree to send tanks

    The attacks come after the United States and Germany announced plans to arm Ukraine with dozens of modern battle tanks in its fight against Russia, which denounced the decisions as an "extremely dangerous" step.

    • US, Germany to send scores of tanks to help Ukraine fight Russian invasion

      The U.S. decision to deliver M1 Abram tanks helped break a diplomatic logjam with Germany over how to best to help Kyiv in its war with Russia, which hours earlier had condemned Berlin's decision to provide Leopard 2 tanks as a dangerous provocation.

      Russia plans 'major changes' in armed forces from 2023 to 2026

      "Only by strengthening the key structural components of the Armed Forces is it possible to guarantee the military security of the state and protect new entities and critical facilities of the Russian Federation," Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

      Death toll in Russian strike on Ukrainian building up to 35

      About 1,700 people lived in the multi-story building, with residents saying there were no military facilities at the site. The reported death toll made it the deadliest attack in one place since a Sept. 30 strike in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, according to The Associated Press-Frontline War Crimes Watch project.

      Russia-Belarus to conduct 'defensive' air drills, sparking fear in Kyiv of new offensive in Ukraine

      Minsk says the drills are defensive, and since Moscow used its neighbour as a springboard for its invasion of Ukraine last February Belarus has conducted numerous military exercises, both on its own and jointly with Russia.

      UK to supply tanks to Ukraine as Russian missiles hit Kyiv

      Sunak’s Downing Street office said in a statement that he made the pledge to provide Challenger 2 tanks and other artillery systems after speaking to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday.

      Russian missiles strike vital infrastructure in Kyiv and Kharkiv

      Reuters journalists heard a series of blasts in Kyiv before the air raid siren even sounded, which is highly unusual. No one was reported hurt, but missile debris caused a fire in one place and houses were damaged outside the capital, officials said.

      Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Moscow, Kyiv dispute control of Soledar

      Russia said its forces had taken control of Soledar in eastern Ukraine, which would be a rare success for Moscow after months of battlefield reverses. Ukrainian forces continued to fight in Soledar, a small salt-mining town, and other cities in the Donetsk region. Reuters could not verify the accounts. CNN said reporters outside Soledar could hear mortar and rocket fire on Friday afternoon and saw Ukrainian forces ferrying troops in what appeared to be an organised pullback. Ultra-nationalist mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose Wagner Group includes prisoners promised pardons for service, complained after Russia's military took credit for Soledar without mentioning his fighters. Arms were being shipped into Ukraine from China. At least four Chinese-owned supertankers were shipping Russian Urals crude to China, according to trading sources and tracking data, as Moscow seeks vessels for exports after a G7 oil price cap restricted the use of Western cargo services and insurance.

      Russia says it has captured the eastern town of Soledar

      There was no immediate confirmation from Ukrainian authorities to Russia's claim to have seized the town in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk province, one of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow has illegally annexed. Soledar's fall would mark a rare victory for the Kremlin after a series of battlefield setbacks in its invasion of Ukraine.

      Rifts in Russian military command seen amid Ukraine fighting

      Footage posted in the fall showed a Wagner contractor being beaten to death with a sledgehammer after allegedly defecting to the Ukrainian side. Despite public outrage and demands to investigate the incident, authorities have turned a blind eye to it. Observers have warned that by giving Prigozhin a free hand to run Wagner as a private army governed by medieval-style rules, the government has effectively planted dangerous seeds of possible upheaval.

      Russia appoints top soldier Gerasimov to oversee Ukraine campaign

      Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu appointed Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov on Wednesday to oversee the military campaign in Ukraine, in the latest shake-up of Moscow's military leadership.

      Russia changes commander again in Ukraine as battle for Soledar rages

      Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday appointed Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov as overall commander for what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine, now in its 11th month.

      Ukraine says mining town holding out against Russian assault

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week that "everything is completely destroyed" in the area due to relentless shelling and weeks of close, house-to-house combat. "The whole land near Soledar is covered with the corpses of the occupiers and scars from the strikes," Zelenskyy said. "This is what madness looks like." Soledar, known for salt mining and processing, has little intrinsic value. But it lies at a strategic point 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of the city of Bakhmut, which Russian forces are aiming to surround.

      Zelenskiy says Ukraine must 'be ready' at Belarus border

      Zelenskiy made his comments after visiting the Lviv region, where he discussed border protection and the security situation in northwestern Ukraine.

      Battle for Ukraine's Soledar ongoing: Russian army

      "Assault squads are fighting in the city," the Russian army said in a statement. It added that its forces "blocked Soledar from the northern and southern areas of the city" and that its air force was striking "enemy strongholds."

      Russian mercenary firm claims strategic Ukrainian town of Soledar, control unclear

      Soledar has been the focus of intense fighting as Russia has viewed it as key to its campaign for the nearby strategic city of Bakhmut and Ukraine's larger eastern Donbas region. Reuters was not able to verify conditions on the ground.

      'What madness looks like': Russia intensifies Bakhmut attack

      "Everything is completely destroyed. There is almost no life left," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late Monday of the scene around Bakhmut and the nearby Donetsk province city of Soledar. "The whole land near Soledar is covered with the corpses of the occupiers and scars from the strikes," Zelenskyy said. "This is what madness looks like."

      Bitter fighting as Russia presses assault on Ukraine's Soledar

      Seizing Soledar would be advantageous to Russian forces as they fight for control of the city of Bakhmut, a few kilometres (miles) to the southwest, where troops from both sides have been taking heavy losses in some of the most intense trench warfare since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly 11 months ago.

      Ukraine bolsters defences in east as Russia sends waves of attacks

      Kyiv had sent reinforcements to Soledar, a small town near Bakhmut where the situation was particularly difficult, Ukrainian officials said.

      Russia captured east Ukraine village near Bakhmut: Separatists

      The village of Bakhmutske in "the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation," on Monday, read a statement from separatist authorities on Telegram.

      Ukraine says its forces repel constant Russian attacks in east

      Russia launched seven missile strikes, 31 air strikes and 73 attacks from salvo rocket launchers in the past day, the general staff of Ukraine's armed forces said in a daily report.

      No sign of casualties at site of strikes Russia says killed hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers

      Reuters reporters visited the two college dormitories Russia's defence ministry said had been temporarily housing Ukrainian servicemen close to the front line of the war at the time of the overnight strike. Neither appeared to have been directly hit by missiles or seriously damaged.

      Moscow ends self-proclaimed ceasefire, vows to press ahead in Ukraine

      Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Russia is planning a major new offensive. The Pentagon said on Friday that Putin's aim of seizing Ukrainian territory has not changed, even if his military continues to suffer blows. There has been growing concerns that Belarus - a staunch backer of Moscow - could be used as a staging post to attack Ukraine from the north after increasing military activity in the country and fresh transfer of Russian troops there.

      Russia grinds on in eastern Ukraine; Bakhmut ''destroyed''

      The latest battles of Russia's 9 1/2 month war in Ukraine have centered on four provinces that Russian President Vladimir Putin triumphantly - and illegally - claimed to have annexed in late September. The fighting indicates Russia's struggle to establish control of those regions and Ukraine's persistence to reclaim them.

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