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Russian troops continue preparations for offensive in separate directions – AFU General Staff.

The Russian occupation forces continue to make an active reconnaissance and preparations for an offensive in separate directions, as well as strengthen their troops, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has said on Facebook.

The enemy continues offensive operations in Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiyivka, and Novopavlivske directions.

"The enemy is sustaining heavy losses, especially in terms of personnel," the General Staff said.

The occupation forces are conducting defense in other directions.

Russian army units continue to exercise at military training grounds in Belarus. At the same time, join aviation drills of the regional group of the Russian and Belarusian armed forces have finished. However, the enemy aviation group has not returned to the base airfields.

Russia is preparing for a secret mobilization in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk region. In particular, all state-funded and municipal establishments in Horlivka were ordered to submit the lists of reserved employees to the occupation military commissariat. All these people will be checked by special commissions of the enemy for further recruitment to the enemy armed forces.

The occupation forces are preparing to destroy the road infrastructure, mining the bridges, dams and crossings near Tavilzhanka in Kupiansk district, Kharkiv region.

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G7 ambassadors monitor selection of new HQCJ leadership.

The new leadership of the High Qualifications Commission of Judges (HQCJ) should be virtuous and independent, the Italian Presidency of the G7 Ambassadors Support Group in Kiev said in a statement published on social network X on Thursday.

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Press Preview: Wednesday's papers

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Crocus City Hall attack casts further shadow on Tajik citizens in Russia.

Crocus City Hall attack casts further shadow on Tajik citizens in Russia.

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Protesting Farmers Spray Brussels Police With Liquid Manure - VOA News.

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Threat of famine increases in Gaza - Israel-Hamas War.

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In Gaza there are increasing concerns about the threat of famine. On Monday, the RAF airdropped more than 10 metric tons of British food Aid, into Gaza, for the first time. Food insecurity has also increased in the occupied West Bank as a result o...

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ attorney responds to raids on properties in a statement.

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Coast Guard suspends Baltimore bridge collapse search and rescue efforts - full video.

Coast Guard suspends Baltimore bridge collapse search and rescue efforts - full video.

The U.S. Coast Guard is holding a news conference about the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge. A container ship struck one of the bridge's support columns early Tuesday, sending vehicles and people into the water. #news #breakingnew...

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