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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

Russian forces are slowly gaining ground in eastern Ukraine, seizing the city of Lyman and coming closer to surrounding the much larger city of Sievierodonetsk, as the wide-scale devastation wreaked by their offensive on towns and cities in the region widens a spiraling crisis for civilians.

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Ukraine Live Updates: Russia Moves to Stabilize Its Economy as War Takes a Toll

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Latest Ukraine-Russia War News: Live Updates

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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Latest Russia-Ukraine War Updates: Live News

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-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

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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Ukraine-Russia: Latest News and Updates

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.