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“Brigades get wiped out fighting along the entire perimeter of the "cauldron" simply because the main criteria of success for generals is to hold positions”. Ukrainians warn of being surrounded as Russia advances in east bbc.com/news/articles/…

Russian troops continue pushing in eastern #Ukraine. Sometimes their advancement catches Ukrainian forces by surprise, leaving them in an encirclement. A group of soldiers told me how they escaped from a Russian trap on the verge of death. bbc.com/news/videos/cx…

On the BBC Sounds News Playlist today: From Our Own Correspondent, with dispatches from Hugo Bachega on Lebanon's displaced people; Sri Lanka's new left-leaning President with Samira Hussain; Abdujalil A has a report from Ukraine's eastern frontline bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Russian forces have taken #Vuhledar in eastern #Ukraine. Many of its defenders were wounded and killed by Russian drones and artillery as they tried to withdraw, Ukrainian soldiers told me. Many more are still missing, they said. bbc.com/news/articles/…

#Russia's advance into #Vuhledar. My colleague Abdujalil A on how Moscow's troops now appear to have captured the Ukrainian coal-mining town. #Donetsk #Ukraine bbc.com/news/articles/…

Ukrainian soldiers tell the BBC’s Abdujalil A that Russian forces have taken the town of Vuhledar - or the smashed remains of it - after more than 2 yrs of brutal battles Terrible news for the people I met as they fled their homes at the very start bbc.com/news/articles/…

“What is the scariest thing in the war?” I asked a Ukrainian soldier on the frontline who came out from #Vuhledar recently. “Losing friends,” he said.

A coalition of human rights org has called on #Kyrgyzstan authorities to drop charges against 11 journalists who reported on high-level corruption. They called this case "a textbook example of retaliation" & appealed to end the crackdown on free speech. crd.org/2024/10/09/kyr…

Russia has lost its newest weapon in Ukraine - bbc.com/news/articles/…

Zelensky’s victory plan is the same old narrative. And it’s more about what Ukraine wants, not so much what they’re going to do to win the war. I haven’t seen the secret addedndums, maybe they are the real plan and what’s presented for the public is just a smoke screen

Keep in mind when Trump says “peace” for Ukraine, most likely he means a ceasefire and a frozen conflict. If hostilities end, he’ll regard his job done. But Ukraine tried this option in 2014. Eight years later, Russia launched a full-scale invasion.

I am on Abdujalil A.bsky.social

Do you know what is a bigger killer than HIV and malaria? And why the war in Ukraine is making it even more dangerous? This is the story: bbc.com/news/articles/…

US and Ukraine are saying that they are close to sign a deal on rare earth and critical metals. "A payback", security guarantees and mineral wars - my explainer bbc.com/news/articles/…

"[Russians] will violate it the very next day." Do Ukrainians believe in a ceasefire? bbc.com/news/videos/c4…

The White House’s readout of the Trump-Putin phone call omits Russian demands to have a full ceasefire that are listed in the Kremlin’s document. Moscow wants Ukraine’s rearmament and military mobilisation to stop during the 30-day ceasefire.

Putin also offered Trump to have an ice hockey match between US and Russia. Many in Ukraine believe that the aim of this seemingly harmless proposal is to distract the world from Russian war crimes & end the country’s isolationism. The end goal is to normalize Russia’s aggression

After Moscow and Kyiv reached separate agreements with the US on energy ceasefire, will Ukrainian drone makers ground their long-range aircraft used to spy and identify targets deep inside Russia? I went to a secret facility where they make such drones bbc.com/news/articles/…

Russian forces are making gains in the Ukrainian north-eastern region of Sumy - a development that may be linked to Moscow's attempts to create "buffer zones" bbc.com/news/articles/…