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The Ukrainians are the ones fighting and dying. It must be up to them to decide when and how to settle with Russia.

Russia and Ukraine have different claims of how many people have died in the conflict. The BBC explores the data.

By Luis Lidón Dnipro, Ukraine, Jul 1 (EFE).- With bloody combat and devastating bombings encroaching deeper into Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, many residents who had until now resisted evacuation are boarding trains to destinations that are safer but just as uncertain. “We did not want to leave but we had no other option because everything …

While fighting has subsided in the Ukrainian port city, humanitarian agencies say theyre having difficulties delivering badly needed aid.

Officials say raids hit a residential building and a resort near the Black Sea port, amid uptick in similar attacks.

Snake Island became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance in the first days of the war, when the rocky outcrop's defenders told a Russian warship that called on them to surrender to "go f*ck yourself".

Russian troops have abandoned their positions on a captured Ukrainian island.

Last weekend, after the eastern city of Severodonetsk finally fell to Russian forces, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky struck a sombre note in his nightly address to the Ukrainian people, saying that the war in his country was entering a difficult time, “morally and emotionally”.

Russia yesterday admitted that it has given up trying to hold Snake Island in the face of withering Ukrainian artillery fire, the latest in a long line of humiliating battlefield defeats for Putins armed forces.

The United Kingdom stands side-by-side with Ukraine on its path as a free European democracy. We strengthened this through our (...) [Voltaire Network]