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Demining of Kyiv Oblast can take up to a year -- Ukraine expects escalation in the south following sinking of Russian flagship Moskva -- British SAS troops ‘are training local forces in Ukraine -- Russia abducts Ukrainian children -- and more

Russia's immediate goal is to surround 44,000 Ukrainian troops in Donbas -- Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivka likely targets of Russia's increased attacks -- Ukraine repels enemy attacks in the south -- Verkhovna Rada recognizes Russia's actions as genocide against Ukraine -- and more

Ukraine needs long-range weapons to prevent encirclement in Donbas -- Crimea & four Russian regions on security alert -- Russian occupiers forcibly enlist Ukrainians in southern Ukraine -- Ukraine nationalizes 10 Russian ships -- and more

300th Russian aerial target destroyed since beginning of war -- Russia amasses aircraft at western Lipetsk Oblast airfield -- Large Russian military column spotted heading to Donbas -- Russian forces illegally deported 33,500 residents to Russia, occupied territories -- and more

Ukraine can lift siege of Mariupol if it receives heavy weapons -- Possibility of a Russian offensive on Kyiv will depend on fighting in Donbas -- Russia ‘using weapons smuggled by Iran from Iraq’ -- and more

Russia tries recruiting troops from Moldova’s occupied Transnistria -- Kremlin forces Ukrainians deported to Russia to receive local passports -- Russia prepares for an 'offensive operation' to break through Donbas defense lines -- Extremely difficult to even think of negotiations with people who commit, find excuses for atrocities, war crimes -- and more

Prohibited PTM-1S multi-scatter landmines found near Kharkiv -- Ukrainian Air Force: 13 Russian aerial targets destroyed -- One quarter of Russian forces in Ukraine 'effectively inoperable.' -- Kharkiv Oblast Governor says region witnessed same atrocities as Bucha -- and more

Ukraine hopes to receive EU candidate country status in June -- Missiles hitting Kramatorsk train station presumably launched from Russian-occupied Donbas -- Russia changes its military command -- Ukraine’s Ministry of Health orders antidote to chemical weapons -- and more

UN suspends Russia from Human Rights Council -- Russian soldiers discussed killing civilians in Bucha by radio -- Sumy region completely free of Russian forces -- Over 500,000 people officially registered as internally displaced persons in Ukraine -- and more

Russia uses crematoriums to erase evidence of its war crimes -- Russian air strikes destroy oil depot, set fire to factory in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast -- Russian occupiers leave explosives in apartments of Bucha -- Russia blocks humanitarian corridors to Mariupol 'to hide the real picture -- and more

Russian troops hit merchant ship under Dominican Republic flag near Mariupol -- Russian occupiers prepare ‘mass provocation’ in Mariupol to blame the Ukrainian military -- Eight Russian cruise missiles destroyed in one day -- Up to 200 people missing and presumed dead in Borodyanka -- and more

Satellite imagery suggests bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims -- Russian forces shell chemical plant in Donetsk Oblast -- Pro-Russian party stages fake mayor elections in partially occupied Mariupol -- Bodies of tortured civilians found in Sumy Oblast -- and more