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Ukraine has denied claims by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Vagner mercenary group, that Russian forces have captured all of Soledar, one of the hottest points in the war. The town sits on a vast network of salt-mine tunnels that cover an estimated 200 kilometers.
Utility crews are working to restore power to towns and villages in Ukraine's liberated Kharkiv region. Workers must carefully avoid minefields to hook up electrical cables. Meanwhile, volunteers are bringing drinking water, fuel, and food to villages cut off by damaged roads and bridges.
The chief of Russia's Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, has ordered a probe launched against self-exiled actor Artur Smolyaninov over a recent interview he gave about Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Moscow's Helsinki Group, founded in 1976 by Soviet dissident scientists and activists, is fighting for survival. A Moscow court is set to rule in January on liquidating the organization. It's the same court that closed down the Memorial human rights group last year.
Prosecutors in Ukraine have announced that the individual suspected of orchestrating the removal of a Banksy mural in a town heavily damaged in Russian bombing could face 12 years in prison if found guilty.
Ukraine has claimed responsibility for a missile attack on a temporary military barracks in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region after the Kremlin, in a rare battlefield admission, acknowledged that scores of its soldiers had been killed at a site in the city of Makiyivka.
As fighting rages in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Russian forces near the city of Bakhmut are said to be exhausted. Ukrainian troops are relying upon their air reconnaissance operations. A drone unit known as The Wings of Madyar is providing real-time information to Ukrainian artillery batteries.
Since the first day of the Russian invasion, Ukrainians have been uploading videos online about how they are experiencing war, devastation, and blackouts. Many use humor to help lighten spirits amid the tensions of war.
Despite constant shelling by Russian forces, a New Year's tree was put up in Bakhmut, a hotly contested city in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Most of Bakhmut's prewar popular of 70,000 have fled. Volunteers hope the New Year's tree will be a sign of hope for those who remain.
A statue of 18th-century Russian Empress Catherine the Great was dismantled in the Ukrainian city of Odesa on the night of December 28-29 as Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine.
Vyacheslav Kolokoltsev, an 81-year-old retired geologist, lives in the village of Gorneshno in Russia's Novgorod region. He hangs posters outside his house against the war in Ukraine and denouncing Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Two Russian men, including a wealthy regional legislator, reportedly died at a hotel in the eastern Indian city of Rayagada within a few days of one another under unclear circumstances, local media reported.
The cities of Bucha and Irpin in the Kyiv region were both heavily damaged during the brief but brutal occupation by Russian forces at the start of their invasion of Ukraine. Many houses were completely destroyed or in need of major repairs.
Dmitry Rogozin, the former Russian deputy prime minister and once the head of the state space agency Roskosmos, has been wounded by Ukrainian shelling near the eastern city of Donetsk, which is controlled by Russian separatists.
A Ukrainian police evacuation group called White Angel is still working to get local residents out of the city of Bakhmut, which is under attack from Russian forces. Before evacuating some elderly residents, they brought a St. Nicholas Day present to Hanna, a young girl living in a basement.
An explosion and fire at a major pipeline transporting Russia's natural gas from Siberia to Europe via Ukraine killed three workers on December 20.
A landscape architect who says he worked on Russian President Vladimir Putin's official complex near Moscow has provided Current Time with plans, videos, and photos. Stanislav Chekalyov says he spent five months working at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence last year.
Moscow is trying to seize more territory in Ukraine's Donetsk region, currently one of the war's hottest areas. Russian forces are said to be sending small reconnaissance units to probe for weaknesses in Ukraine's defenses. Ukrainian troops are pushing back against enemy attacks.
Moscow municipal lawmaker Aleksei Gorinov, who was handed a prison term in July for his stance against Russia's aggression against Ukraine, has been transferred to a prison infirmary for unspecified health problems, the politician’s supporters said on Telegram on December 16.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev made a surprise visit to a Tashkent resident and asked how the heating in his building was. His original answer was "not that great," but after a stream of questions, his reponse was "we're not freezing" and he agreed after Mirziyoev said: "So, it's fine?"
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