Inside the ‘bodies corridor’ – where Russia and Ukraine meet to swap their dead
Convoy makes tension-filled journey into enemy territory for one of the only functioning levels of diplomacy left: the exchange of corpses
The Telegraph
Financial Times
Ukraine needs 500,000 military recruits. Can it raise them?
Ahead of a new mobilisation law, exhausted soldiers on the frontline complain of low morale
Financial Times
Ukrainians question Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ‘rose-tinted’ speeches
Former and current advisers say lack of realism in president’s messaging is undermining confidence
Washington Post
Back-channel talks keep Ukraine and Russia in contact, despite war
There is little hope for negotiations to end the war but Russia and Ukraine have managed to engage on exchanging POWs and other issues, at times through intermediaries.
openDemocracy
‘The West doesn’t understand how we are fighting’
Western instructors don’t understand the kind of war or enemy that we’re fighting, say Ukrainian soldiers
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
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
We’re almost out of ammunition and relying on western arms, says Ukraine
Exclusive: Deputy head of military intelligence says it’s an artillery war now and ‘everything depends on what the west gives us’
The Guardian
Drone analysis in Ukraine suggests Iran has supplied Russia since war began
Guardian visits space used by Ukrainian military intelligence to examine captured drones
The Guardian
Ukraine’s southern offensive ‘was designed to trick Russia’
Exclusive: Russian forces wrong-footed by attack in Kharkiv region after preparing for offensive in the south
The Guardian
The body collectors: Ukrainian volunteers search for Russian corpses
The Guardian joins members of the Black Tulip group as they carry out their grim task in a deserted village
The Guardian
‘If we get out of here it will be a miracle:’ a family at war in the hell of Bakhmut
After volunteering for the Ukrainian territorial defence force, a headmaster and his son found themselves in frontline battles