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As the fourth month dawns in the war in Ukraine, the battle has narrowed to a 75-mile-wide sliver of land in the heart of the eastern Donbas region, where Russia’s concentrated firepower and shortened supply lines are helping its forces make progress toward a handful of key cities.

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Russia-Ukraine War: Latest News

As Russian forces continued a slow, deadly march toward Ukraine’s last stronghold in the battered Luhansk region, the president of the European Commission on Tuesday accused Moscow of deliberately trying to provoke a global food crisis by targeting grain warehouses, ports and other critical infrastructure in its three-month war in Ukraine.

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As the war in Ukraine lurches toward the three-month mark, President Volodymyr Zelensky took his message of unity against Russian aggression to an audience of global business elites on Monday, calling on international leaders at the World Economic Forum to marshal their financial might to further punish Moscow and back Ukraine’s resistance.

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Russia will cut natural gas supplies to Finland on Saturday, according to Finland’s state energy provider, amid a growing confrontation between the two countries over the war in Ukraine.

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Ukraine-Russia War: Latest News

As hundreds more Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol surrendered to Russia on Thursday, Moscow was also seeking to project control over southeastern Ukraine, where a high-ranking official declared that seized parts of the region would “take a worthy place in our Russian family.”

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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

The bloodiest battle of the war in Ukraine ended in Mariupol on Tuesday, long after the city itself was obliterated, as the Ukrainian military ordered fighters holed up at a steel mill to surrender and dozens of their comrades were evacuated to Russian-held territory aboard buses emblazoned with the Russian war emblem “Z.”

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In a sign of Russian forces’ struggles on the battlefield, military analysts have said that Moscow appears to be further scaling back its objectives even in eastern Ukraine, where it has recently been focusing its devastating firepower, and may be targeting a takeover only of part of the Donbas region on its border.

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A day after Finland’s leaders declared unequivocally that the nation would join NATO, Sweden’s government signaled on Friday that it could soon follow suit, issuing a scathing report outlining how Russian aggression in Ukraine had fundamentally altered Europe’s security equation and saying that only NATO membership would offer the nation protection.

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As Russia’s grinding war pulverizes eastern Ukraine and eats away at the global economy, it is also creating unintended consequences for President Vladimir V. Putin, whose aggression is giving rise to a stronger, Western-aligned security architecture in Europe, the very thing the Russian leader had hoped to weaken.