17 h. ago Ukraine frontline latest: Russia ‘captures another village in Eastern Ukraine’

Thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them from Ukraine

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18 h. ago ‘Russia is not winning’: Ukraine frontline soldiers say ‘weak’ Moscow should be negotiating with its back to the wall

On the three year anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine frontline soldiers tell World affairs editor Sam Kiley that it’s Russia that should be suing for peace

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21 h. ago ‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline

Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness“The frontline here is cold, hard, true war. My comrades and I had more than 40 bombs dropped on us by drones over two hours. You can’t hide from drones in a trench, but you can’t outrun them either. Your only hope to live is to zigzag, to be cleverer than the drone.”A gaunt 28-year-old former IT worker sits patiently beneath a window barricaded with sandbags, awaiting his turn on the operating table, cloaked in dust. Now an infantryman in the Ukrainian army’s Third Assault Brigade, “Sasha” (not his real name) has shrapnel embedded in his shoulder after the Russian assault on his foxhole. “When you hear a drone, you run as fast as you can and see if you can reach any trees,” he says. “If you’re out in the open, you try to get the drone behind you, so it won’t destroy your face. It’s not panic, this running; it’s a professional respons...

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39 h. ago Ukraine frontline latest: Russia claims to have taken control of two more east Ukrainian villages

Thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them from Ukraine

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60 h. ago ‘Not what I expected’: Russian soldiers sent to North Korea for medical care

Wonsan resorts offer troops time-off to recover, but some wonder if move is a pretence for military trainingAfter two years fighting for Russia on the frontlines in Ukraine, Aleksei returned to his home town of Vladivostok last summer to recover from a shrapnel wound to his leg.Looking to speed up his recovery and take a break from the city, he asked his military unit in Russia’s far east to see if he could secure a state-sponsored stay at a sanatorium – a health resort offering a mix of medical treatment and rest. Continue reading...

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64 h. ago ‘I would shoot a Russian soldier’ says former Tory MP fighting on Ukraine frontline

A former Tory MP fighting now fighting on the Ukraine frontline says he would shoot a Russian soldier as part of his duties.

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65 h. ago Ukraine frontline latest: Russia claims it is advancing in all directions

Thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them from Ukraine

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3 d. ago Ukraine frontline latest: Russian launches barrage of drones on Odesa

Thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them from Ukraine

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4 d. ago Security for Ukraine could be achieved with fewer troops, say UK sources

Defence figures suggest heavy use of long-range monitoring could reduce need for soldiers on the frontline with RussiaBritain believes that a European-led security guarantee to Ukraine could be provided with considerably fewer troops than the 100,000 to 150,000 called for by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week in the event of a peace agreement.A European-led assurance force for Ukraine would not necessarily involve large numbers stationed on the frontline, defence sources indicated on Tuesday, and could therefore be in the region of a few tens of thousands strong – or even fewer. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Ukraine frontline latest: Russian claims control of settlement in east

Thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them from Ukraine

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4 d. ago Ukraine frontline latest: Russian drone attack injures civilians in Dolynska

Thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them from Ukraine

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