Tanks, bombs, shootings: Ukrainians describe Russian takeover of villages
Witnesses describe soldiers shooting people dead in the street and confiscating phones and laptops
The Guardian
Financial Times
Ukraine nears deal with global insurers to cover grain ships
Scheme could cover up to 30 commercial vessels in Black Sea under threat of potential attack from Russia
Financial Times
Ukraine turns up pressure on exiled oligarch Dmytro Firtash
Kyiv expands corruption investigation into three more managers of energy companies
Washington Post
Anti-Putin militias mount cross-border incursion in western Russia
Ukraine denied any involvement in the attacks in Russia's Belgorod region, where the governor said one person was killed and eight were injured.
Washington Post
Ukraine presses counteroffensive as flood evacuations continue in south
Heavy fighting was reported in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions but no major gains were claimed by Ukraine signaling the new phase of the war will be difficult.
Washington Post
Ukrainian forces advance on Russians, deny ‘counteroffensive’ has begun
Soldiers made gains outside Orikhovo-Vasylivka and Ivanivske and in Paraskoviivka, all near Bakhmut, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said.
The Guardian
Putin’s alleged war crimes: who are the Ukrainian children being taken by Russia?
What we know about the children behind the indictment of Vladimir Putin and his children’s commissioner for abduction
The Guardian
Weeks turn to months as children become stuck at camps in Crimea
The Russian-run camps were advertised as restorative breaks; parents say some children have been kept there for months
The Guardian
‘I can’t stop smiling’: residents welcome Ukrainian troops in the frontline town of Snihurivka
Small town a kilometre from army’s positions in southern Ukraine was retaken on Thursday
Kherson torture centres were planned by Russian state, say lawyers
Investigators say sites set up during occupation of Ukrainian city were part of ‘calculated plan to terrorise’ locals
The Guardian
‘Ze-len-skiy!’ Kherson crowds cheer president after he gives speech in city
Volodymyr Zelenskiy was mobbed by recently liberated Ukrainians after his soldiers ended the Russian occupation
The Guardian
Alleged Russian ‘torture room’ uncovered in liberated Kherson
Ukrainian investigators claim Russian forces took over juvenile detention centre, beating and killing people inside