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Damaged residential buildings in Lysychansk, in the Luhansk region, Ukraine, July 3, 2022. (Luhansk region military administration, via AP)
July 3, 2022, 11:46 pm
Ukraine retreats from key Luhansk redoubt, in major gain for Russia
Kyiv gives up control of Lysychansk, last major city in the region still in its hands, freeing up Moscow’s forces to advance on other Ukrainian strongholds
By Benoit Finck and Dmytro Gorshkov
Ukrainian soldiers ride an armoured vehicle on the main road to Lysychansk in Ukraine's eastern region of Donbas on June 26, 2022. (Bagus Saragih/AFP)
July 3, 2022, 6:43 am
Battle rages for key Ukraine city; Belarus claims to down missiles fired by Kyiv
Official says Lysychansk still in Ukrainian control, after Moscow-backed separatists report encircling it; Zelensky: ‘Cruelty’ of war increasing in some places
By Benoit Finck and Dmytro Gorshkov
Victor Rosenberg, 81, looks out of a broken window in his home destroyed by the Russian rocket attack in the city center of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Friday, July 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
July 2, 2022, 2:06 pm
Ukraine’s Zelensky accuses Russia of ‘terror,’ as missiles rain down on civilians
Germany condemns ‘cruel manner in which Russian aggressor takes the deaths of civilians in its stride’; witnesses say Friday’s resort town strike appeared to use cluster munitions
By Dmytro Gorshkov and Benoit Finck
A picture taken on June 21, 2022, from the town of Lysychansk shows a large plume of smoke rising on the horizon behind the town of Severodonetsk, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP)
June 25, 2022, 8:19 pm
Ukraine’s Severodonetsk ‘fully occupied’ as Russians shift focus to neighboring city
Pro-Moscow separatists report street fighting in Lysychansk; Putin says Russia to provide Belarus with nuclear-capable missiles
By Benoit Finck, Blaise GAUQUELIN and Anna MALPAS
A picture shows destruction of a heating system plant after a Russian missile attack in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region in Ukraine, June 24, 2022. (Bagus Saragih/AFP)
June 25, 2022, 3:40 pm
Ukraine says rocket barrage fired from Belarus at northern village
20 rockets target Desna, damaging infrastructure; Ukraine says attack part of efforts by Russia to draw neighbor fully into conflict; Putin, Lukashenko set to meet
By Benoit Finck, Blaise GAUQUELIN and Anna MALPAS
A Ukrainian tank is in position during heavy fighting on the front line in Severodonetsk, the Luhansk region, Ukraine, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Oleksandr Ratushniak)
June 24, 2022, 6:22 pm
In boost to Russian offensive, Ukraine forces begin retreat from key eastern city
Capturing Severodonetsk, the scene of street battles for weeks, the Russian army will be closer to achieving its goal of controlling entire Donbas region
By Benoit Finck, Anna MALPAS and Christian SPILLMANN
A Ukrainian serviceman walks in a trench on a position held by the Ukrainian army between southern cities of Mykolaiv and Kherson on June 12, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Genya SAVILOV / AFP)
June 19, 2022, 4:05 pm
NATO chief says Ukraine war could last ‘years’ and require long-term support
While Kyiv remains defiant, Stoltenberg warns Western countries must be ready to offer continued help in grinding war; Zelensky admits losses are ‘significant’
By Benoit Finck and Anna MALPAS
French President Emmanuel Macron, center, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi travel on board a train bound to Kyiv after departing from Poland, June 16, 2022 (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)
June 16, 2022, 12:25 pm
Leaders of France, Germany and Italy visit Ukraine with ‘message of European unity’
Macron, Scholz and Draghi take train from Poland in 1st visit since start of Russian invasion; will meet Zelensky as Kyiv pushes for official candidate status to join EU
By Benoit Finck
The gutted remains of cars sit along a road during heavy fighting at the front line in Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, June 8, 2022. (Oleksandr Ratushniak/AP)
June 13, 2022, 9:13 am
Zelensky: Ukrainian, Russian forces fighting for ‘every meter’ in Severodonetsk
Region’s governor says by attacking last remaining bridges, Russians aimed to cut key industrial city off from rest of country
By Anna MALPAS and Benoit Finck
A damaged building is pictured in Lysychansk as black smoke and dirt rise from the nearby city of Severodonetsk during fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops, in the eastern Ukraine region of Donbas on June 9, 2022. (Aris Messinis/AFP)
June 13, 2022, 12:22 am
Russia strikes depot in western Ukraine as battle for key Donbas city rages
Moscow says it targeted site where Western-supplied weapons stored; top EU official promises answer on Ukrainian bid to join bloc by next week
By Anna MALPAS and Benoit Finck
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen make statements following their talks in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 11, 2022. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)
June 12, 2022, 7:56 am
EU chief visits Kyiv, promises answer on Ukraine’s candidacy bid next week
Zelensky presses for quick admission into union, highlights dangers of a food crisis posed by Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea ports
By Benoit Finck and Blaise GAUQUELIN
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