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Russia-Ukraine war live: ‘enemy attempts to storm Avdiivka from all directions’, says Ukrainian official | Ukraine

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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Ten people have died in snowstorms in Ukraine, the country’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, has said. Icy winds and storms have swept in since Sunday, cutting power and blocking roads, particularly in the south. “As a result of worsening weather conditions, 10 people died in Odesa, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and Kyiv regions,” Klymenko wrote on Telegram. “Twenty-three people were injured, including two children,” he added. A total of 411 settlements in 11 regions had lost power, and more than 1,500 vehicles had to be rescued, Klymenko said. Summary It is Tuesday and this is the Guardian’s continuing live coverage of the Russian war against Ukraine. Here are the top developments. Russian forces are intensifying their drive to capture Avdiivka, trying to advance on all sides, according to Vitaliy Barabash, the head of Avdiivka’s military administration. “The Russians have opened up two more sectors from which they have begun making assaults – in the direction of Donetsk … and in the so-called industrial …

Israel-Hamas war live: 33 Palestinians freed after 11 Israeli hostages released; Gaza truce extended by two days | Israel-Hamas war

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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 11 Israeli hostages freed, taken to Tel Aviv hospital Eleven Israeli hostages, nine children and two women, were freed by Hamas late Monday and taken to a hospital in Tel Aviv to reunite with their relatives. The fourth batch of hostages was made up of dual nationals of France, Germany and Argentina, according to Qatar. The Israel Defense Forces named the 11 released on Monday as Eitan Yahalomi, Sharon Kunio, three-year-old twins Emma and Yuly Kunio, Karina Engel, Mika Engel, Yuval Engel, Sahar Kalderon, Erez Kalderon, Or Yaakov and Yagil Yaakov. According to Haaretz, Diego Engel-Bert, the brother of Karina Engel-Bert and uncle of Mika Engel, 17, and Yuval Engel, 11 told Channel 12 News: We are all here glued to the screen and full of happiness and longing. It’s good to have a chest to stop the heart from escaping. We’re starting to see a little light in the darkness we are in, waiting for them to come so we …

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 643 | Ukraine

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Hurricane-force winds, snowfall and flooding have lashed Russia’s southern regions of Dagestan, Krasnodar and Rostov, as well as the occupied Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea. In Ukraine, the severe weather killed at least five people and cut power to almost 1,500 towns and villages after storms dumped up to 25cm (10 inches) of snow in some places. Another four people were reported dead in Moldova. Freezing temperatures were forecast for Tuesday morning. Russia’s energy ministry said power cuts affected 1.9 million people. Weather forecasts show downpours were continuing late on Monday in the Crimean port of Sevastopol and Sochi on Russia’s Black Sea coast, amid hopes the storm’s impact might deliver a setback to the Russian war effort. Russian forces are intensifying their drive to capture Avdiivka, trying to advance on all sides, according to Vitaliy Barabash, head of Avdiivka’s military administration. “The Russians have opened up two more sectors from which they have begun making assaults – in the direction of Donetsk … and in the so-called industrial zone. The …

Who are the Israeli hostages freed by Hamas during Gaza truce? | Israel-Hamas war

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Friday Munder family: Keren, 54, her son Ohad, 9, and her mother, Ruth, 78 Ohad Munder meets his father, brother and family members at the Schneider children’s medical center, Israel. Photograph: AP Ohad turned nine in captivity. He loves Rubik’s cubes. His mother, who teaches children with special needs, was visiting relatives in Nir Oz on the day Hamas attacked. Ruth was a librarian and tailor before she retired. Ohad’s grandfather, Avraham, 78, remains in captivity in Gaza. His uncle – Ruth and Avraham’s son – Roee, 50, was killed in the attack. Asher family: Doron Katz-Asher, 34, her daughters Raz, four, and Aviv, two Aviv Asher, her sister Raz, and mother, Doron, meet Yoni, Raz and Aviv’s father and Doron’s husband. Photograph: Schneider Children’s Medical Center Spokesperson/Reuters Doron, an accountant, lives in Ganot Hadar. She was visiting relatives in Nir Oz at the time of the attack and the family’s abduction was captured on video posted on social media. Her mother, Efrat Katz, was killed on 7 October. Efrat’s partner, Gadi Mozes, was kidnapped …

‘I don’t know if she’s dead or alive’: hostage swap leaves Palestinian girl’s family in limbo | Israel-Hamas war

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Palestinian families, as well as Israelis, have been celebrating reunions, as loved ones held in Israeli prisons return home under the hostage swap and ceasefire deal with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. But for the Hammad family, from occupied East Jerusalem, this week has brought more questions than answers – and more worry than joy. Their daughter, 16-year-old Nofuz Hammad, was on the list of imprisoned women and children to be released on Saturday, the second day of an agreed four-day truce. Only one member of each family was allowed to go to collect the detainees, some of whom, including Nofuz, were supposed to be released at the notorious West Jerusalem detention and interrogation facility known as the Russian Compound. Her father, Jad, 43, used his Jerusalem ID card – the retractable Israeli residency permits given to people of Palestinian ethnicity living in the annexed eastern half of the city – to travel to the Russian Compound, where he waited for hours in the cold. But around midnight, as other sons and daughters came out …

Russia-Ukraine war live: Russians scavenge air defence from Kaliningrad, says UK MoD | Ukraine

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Summary Welcome, as we resume the Guardian’s coverage of the Russian war against Ukraine. Here are the developments making news this morning. Russia is having to pull air defence systems out of Kaliningrad, its external province on the Baltic Sea, to replace those it has lost in the Ukraine war, according to an intelligence update from the UK’s Ministry of Defence. “This follows an increase in losses of SA-21 air defence systems in Russian-occupied Ukraine in late October 2023.” The move shows that Russia is so overstretched by the conflict that it is having to accept additional risk to strategically important Kaliningrad, which is bordered on three sides by Nato member states, according to the MoD. The Russian military death toll in Ukraine has reached 324,830, according to estimates provided by the Ukrainian military. Russia sent waves of kamikaze drones into Ukraine on Saturday in what Kyiv said was the most intensive drone attack since the start of the war. Five people were wounded by falling debris, while several buildings were damaged as about 17,000 …

The war in Gaza has been an intense lesson in western hypocrisy. It won’t be forgotten | Nesrine Malik

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The images of hostages and prisoners being reunited with their families are almost too hopeful to absorb. Even as Israeli authorities explicitly try to suppress Palestinian “expressions of joy” at the return of their prisoners, the fact that they were released, and that some Israeli hostages are now safe and reunited, signals some small promise. But even if the wildest hope is realised – a lasting ceasefire – what has already unfolded over the past 52 days will be hard to forget. There is a short video, posted on social media a few weeks ago, that I cannot get out of my head. In the clip, a man in Gaza is holding two plastic bags that carry the body parts of a child, presumably his. There are other details. The look on the man’s face. The way those around him avoid eye contact once they realise what he is carrying. I see these details often now, sudden and unbidden. The emotional and psychological impact of the war on those outside Gaza – no matter how …

Israel-Hamas war live: ceasefire enters final 24 hours as Netanyahu under pressure to extend deal | Israel-Hamas war

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Truce enters final day as Israel under pressure to extend deal The truce between Israel and Hamas entered its final 24 hours on Monday, with the militant group saying it was willing to extend the pause after it freed more hostages, including a four-year-old orphaned by its attack. Thee pause that began on Friday has seen dozens of hostages freed, with more than 100 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel in return. Agence France-Presse also reports that attention now has turned to whether the truce will be extended before its scheduled end early on Tuesday morning. US president Joe Biden said Sunday: That’s my goal, that’s our goal, to keep this pause going beyond tomorrow so that we can continue to see more hostages come out and surge more humanitarian relief into those in need in Gaza. He said he would like the fighting to be paused for “as long as prisoners keep coming out”. Hamas has signalled its willingness to extend the truce, with a source telling AFP the group told mediators they were open …

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 642 | World news

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Russia is having to pull air defence systems out of Kaliningrad, its external province on the Baltic Sea, to replace the ones it has lost in the Ukraine war, according to an intelligence update from the UK’s Ministry of Defence. “This follows an uptick in losses of SA-21 air defence systems in Russian-occupied Ukraine in late October 2023.” The move shows that Russia is so overstretched by its Ukraine war that it is having to accept additional risk to strategically important Kaliningrad, which is bordered on three sides by Nato member states, according to the MoD. The Russian military death toll in Ukraine has reached 324,830 according to estimates provided by the Ukrainian military. Russia sent waves of kamikaze drones into Ukraine on Saturday in what Kyiv said was the most intensive drone attack since the start of the war. Five people were wounded by falling debris, while several buildings were damaged as about 17,000 people in the Kyiv region were left without electricity, reports said. Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 74 of …

‘All of us want to respond’: Australian artists auction works for Israel-Hamas war victims – in pictures | Art and design

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Ben Quilty, Hoda Afshar, Tom Polo, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Jasper Knight and Jude Rae are among more than 60 artists who have donated works to the auction raising funds for Médecins Sans Frontières’ humanitarian and medical aid efforts in Israel and Palestine. The auction was organised by artist Nathan Hawkes, who said he was feeling ‘intense distress and despair at watching the horrors unfolding so rapidly’. Quilty said ‘all of us in the arts community feel the world poignantly and powerfully, and all of us want to respond to the crisis’ Source link