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A Christmas tree is seen in front of an Orthodox cathedral during a service on the eve of Christmas, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine December 24, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Ukraine Will Create Its Own Christmas Miracle, Zelenskiy Says in Defiant Message

Ukrainians will create their own miracle this Christmas by showing they remain unbowed despite Russian attacks that have plunged millions into darkness, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a…

25 December 2022

Military uniform lays next to an abandoned Russian infantry fighting vehicle BMD-4 in the village of Kurylivka, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine October 1, 2022. REUTERS/Vitalii Hnidyi

Ukraine Celebrates Recapturing Key Town, Putin Ally Raises Nuclear Jitters

Ukrainian troops said they had retaken the key bastion of Lyman in occupied eastern Ukraine, a stinging defeat that prompted a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin to call for the possible…

02 October 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a ceremony to declare the annexation of the Russian-controlled territories of four Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, after holding what Russian authorities called referendums in the occupied areas of Ukraine that were condemned by Kyiv and governments worldwide, in the Georgievsky Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, September 30, 2022. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin via REUTERS

Encirclement of Russian Force in Ukraine Overshadows Putin's Annexation

Hundreds of Russian troops in Ukraine were encircled in one of their main garrisons on Friday, on the verge of one of the worst defeats of the war, overshadowing President Vladimir Putin's…

30 September 2022

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