How Russia’s Invasion Flattened a Ukrainian Border City bellingcat.com/news/2024/10/2…

DNIPRO, Ukraine. October, 2024 📸 by AFP News Agency's Genya Savilov

“At least (Zelensky) can say he’s tried. He’s exhausted the possibilities.” nytimes.com/2024/10/29/wor…

KHARKIV, Ukraine. October, 2024 📸 by AFP News Agency's Sergei Bobok

Russia's greatest battlefield advantage right now is in manpower, and thousands of additional North Korean infantry in Kursk, even without combat experience and coordination problems, would compound that advantage. Over the past three months, Russia has been advancing at a faster

"When he regained consciousness, Oleksii found himself in the half light of dawn or dusk, he could not tell which, in a sprawling field surrounded by dead and decaying bodies." By Carlotta Gall nytimes.com/2024/10/30/wor…

“And Ukraine is in big trouble,” a senior EU official told the Financial Times. European leaders vow to work with Trump despite fears on.ft.com/3AuqeWG via @financialtimes

Donald Trump's victory in US presidential elections has sparked anxiety on the streets of Kyiv at a decisive moment of the war as Ukrainian defences buckle under mounting Russian pressure. u.afp.com/5rDj

ODESA, Ukraine. November, 2024 📸by AFP News Agency's Oleksandr Gimanov

Alongside battlefield setbacks, Ukraine faces another major test as the war enters its third winter: keeping the lights on By Isabel Coles with pictures and video by Serhii Korovayny wsj.com/world/inside-u… via The Wall Street Journal

How Ukraine’s Widows Are Shouldering Their Grief nytimes.com/2024/11/09/wor…

Our father was finally allowed to visit Maria. I cannot believe it. @by_Kalesnikava #sosMaria #freekalesnikava

Where Asia Meets Europe, Allies Become Rivals in a Tangle of Interests By Anton Troianovski with images from emile ducke nytimes.com/2024/11/12/wor…

BREAKING—This autumn, Russia has suffered record high losses (specifically of KIA) since it invaded Ukraine. An average age of a killed Russian soldier reached 38, also a record. Estimated total KIA are at 141k to 198k Olga Ivshina bbcrussian Mediazona bbc.com/russian/articl…

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The fall of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine would cap a year of mounting military and political setbacks for Kyiv. Our dispatch from the ghost town for AFP News Agency 📝 Jonathan Brown 📷 Roman Pilipey 📹 Ionut Iordachescu france24.com/en/live-news/2…

"It's the front line now. They're on one side, and we're on the other," 72-year-old Lyubov Voronova said of the Oskil river flowing by her home in east Ukraine. 📝 Jonathan Brown 📷 Roman Pilipey 🎥 Ionut Iordachescu Our dispatch for AFP News Agency: france24.com/en/live-news/2…

"We wanted to live. We had no combat experience. We were just ordinary working people from villages," one Ukrainian serviceman, who fled but later returned to battle told AFP News Agency. 📝Jonathan Brown 📷Roman Pilipey 📷Ionut Iordachescu france24.com/en/live-news/2…

KYIV, Ukraine. January 2025 📷by AFP News Agency's Tetiana Dzhafarova