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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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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Russia and China rebuke NATO after alliance raises alarm
During a summit in Spain, NATO declared Russia a ‘direct threat’ and said China posed ‘serious challenges’ to global stability.
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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.
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G-7 leaders unite behind Ukraine, take aim at Kremlin oil money
The final statement from the Group of Seven summit in Germany underlined their intent to impose ‘severe and immediate economic costs’ on Russia.
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Russian missile strike hits crowded shopping mall, Ukraine reports
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Telegram post that the number of potential victims was ‘unimaginable.’
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Russia strikes Kyiv as Western leaders meet in Europe
G-7 leaders were set to announce the latest in a long series of international economic steps to pressure and isolate Russia over its war in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian army withdraws from battered Sievierodonetsk to avoid encirclement
A regional governor in eastern Ukraine says that the country’s troops will retreat the key eastern city.