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Russian occupiers shell Sloviansk with cluster bombs -- Russian forces capture Svitlodarsk, Donetsk Oblast -- Russian forces have likely abandoned efforts to encircle large Ukrainian formations in eastern Ukraine -- Kuleba urges countries not to buy grain stolen from Ukraine by Russia -- and more

Russian troops send evacuating civilians down mined road, shoot survivors. -- Russia deported 232,000 children from Ukraine since Feb. 24 -- Ukrainian forces liberate 24 settlements in Kharkiv Oblast -- Russian shelling leave Donetsk, Luhansk oblasts without gas -- Russian troops demand bribes from citizens evacuating Melitopol -- and more

Russian forces use hostages as human shields in Chernihiv Oblast -- Explosion in Enerhodar injures self-proclaimed ‘mayor’ and his bodyguards -- Mariupol on verge of outbreak of infectious diseases -- Syrian barrel bomb experts in Russia to work with Putin’s forces -- Russia will be unable to disrupt US military assistance to Ukraine -- and more

Ukraine rules out ceasefire or concessions to Russia -- Ukraine could be ready for a counteroffensive within 2 months -- Russia deploys Iskander missile launchers to Russia's Belgorod Oblast -- Russian occupying forces in Zaporizhzhia Oblast threaten entrepreneurs who refuse to conduct business in rubles -- and more

Russia blocking evacuation from Kherson Oblast -- Russia ready to launch 16 cruise missiles from Black Sea -- Police identify 13 victims of sexual assault by Russian soldiers in Kyiv Oblast -- Prosecutors identify another Russian officer allegedly guilty of atrocities in Kyiv Oblast -- and more

Donbas completely destroyed -- Ukraine seeks long-range rocket launchers, Biden resists -- Russia refuses to permit grain shipments from Ukraine -- Unidentified Russians attack military commissariats in Russia with Molotov cocktails -- Russians block civilians from leaving occupied areas in southern Ukraine -- and more

Russians hit school in Avdiivka with banned phosphorus bombs -- Some Russian units refuse to fight -- Azovstal bombing may send Azov Sea to brink of extinction -- Russia commits summary executions, torture, grave abuses in Chernihiv, Kyiv oblasts -- and more

Russian missile attack caused damage to railway infrastructure -- WHO records 226 attacks on Ukrainian healthcare facilities since Russia’s all-out war began -- Russia's recent missile attacks across Ukraine are an attempt to compensate for Russian military failures -- Russian forces hold over 3,000 Mariupol residents in ‘filtration prison’ -- and more

Russia targets military facility in Lviv Oblast near Polish border -- Ukraine seizes $420 million in frozen assets linked to Russian oligarchs -- Russia seeks to extract false testimony from Mariupol residents -- Russia’s war may lead to catastrophic levels of malnutrition among children globally -- and more

Russia drops either incendiary shells or phosphorus bombs in Mariupol -- Russian soldier says Russians use forbidden weapons -- Russia has likely lost one third of its ground forces in Ukraine -- Ukrainian military publishes audio from sinking of Moskva cruiser -- and more

Russia’s only succeeding in imposing its proxies as leadership in Kherson ‘highlights the failure of Russia’s invasion’ -- Russian occupiers force civilians entering Mariupol to drop Ukrainian license plates -- Russian missile attack hits Lviv Oblast -- Ukraine appears to have ‘won the Battle of Kharkiv’ -- and more

Russia deports Luhansk Oblast residents at gunpoint to occupied territory -- Russian soldier admits shooting Ukrainian POW in intercepted phone call -- Russia launches 10-14 cruise missiles per day on Ukraine -- Ukrainian artillery frustrates Russian offensive -- and more