The war has added a new threat to the dangerous lives of miners in eastern Ukraine.
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Ukraine Retreats From Sievierodonetsk, as Russia Grinds On
With the withdrawal from Sievierodonetsk, the fighting shifts to neighboring Lysychansk, the last city in the Luhansk region still under Ukrainian control.
Russia Gains in Eastern Ukraine, Threatening to Overrun Luhansk
The seizure of three strategic villages confronts Ukrainian commanders with a grim choice: fight on and risk encirclement or retreat and lose the last major centers in the region.
U.S. Officials Predict Path of War in Ukraine
As Russia makes slow but steady progress, the arrival of new weapons systems will help Ukraine hang on to territory, U.S. officials and analysts say.
Russian Forces Tighten Noose Around Important Cities in Ukraine’s East
The area around Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk is about three-quarters encircled by Russians, leaving only a slender gap there for Ukrainian troops to maneuver.
Russians Breached This City, Not With Troops, but Propaganda
As they batter towns and cities in Ukraine with artillery, the Russians are also bombarding them with messaging aimed at eroding Ukrainians’ trust in their military and their government.
Urban Artillery Battle in Ukraine Sends Civilians Running in the East
Heavy volleys between Russian forces taking control of Sievierodonetsk and Ukrainian forces in a neighboring city are leaving wreckage and growing desperation for the residents stuck there.
Your Thursday Briefing: $1 Billion to Ukraine
Plus the Fed raised interest rates and a video of an assault in China went viral.
Your Wednesday Briefing: Sievierodonetsk, Isolated
The key Ukrainian city lost its last bridge as fighting intensifies.