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Ukraine has shifted a campaign that used to focus on dismantling its Soviet background into one of ‘de-Russification’, renaming streets and pulling monuments down. Source link

Pavel Filipchuk, the head of the occupation government, said there are concerns the dam could be damaged by missiles, which would result in flooding. Source link

Russia cited an alleged Ukrainian drone attack against Russian ships moored off the coast of Crimea on Saturday as the reason for the move. Ukraine has denied the attack. Source link

At least 3 dead and 19 wounded in latest Russian attack, Ukraine’s presidential office says. Source link

The call came a day after a jail holding Ukrainian prisoners of war in Kremlin-controlled Olenivka was bombed, leaving scores dead. Source link

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said more than 50 were killed and called the attack a war crime. Russia’s defence ministry alleged the strikes were carried out by Ukraine in an “egregious provocation” designed to stop soldiers from surrendering. Source link

Putin made the remarks at a meeting with Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko in St Petersburg. Source link

Mayor Oleksandr Stryuk said ‘unfortunately, they have almost left the city’, the biggest reversal for Ukraine since losing the port of Mariupol in May. Source link

Yuliia Paievska, known as Taira, used a body camera to record her team’s efforts to save the wounded and was held captive for three months. President Zelensky said ‘we will keep working to free everyone’. Source link

The city of Mariupol, reduced to ruins by Russian forces, is now battling deadly diseases as its sanitation systems break down and corpses rot in the streets. Source link