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Here is the situation on Thursday, January 23: Fighting A Russian missile strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has killed a 47-year-old man, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov. He said 16 others were injured including a two-month-old baby. The Ukrainian air force said Russia launched 99 drones towards Ukraine overnight in what…

Quotable Ukraine’s Security: US Wavers, But Will Europe “Step Up”? Scott Lucas, a Birmingham professor, examines the Ukraine-US fallout—can Europe and the world step up to ensure Ukraine’s security? Read more Scott Lucas, a professor at the University of Birmingham, examines the Ukraine-US fallout – and asks, can Europe and the rest of the world…

Here is the situation on Friday, March 14: Fighting Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces have trapped the remaining Ukrainian soldiers still in the country’s western Kursk region, where Kyiv’s troops have clung on for more than seven months in one of the key battles of the war after making a daring cross-border incursion….

United States President-elect Donald Trump has lost an appeal to a jury’s 2023 finding that he was liable for sexual abuse and defamation related to an alleged attack on writer E Jean Carroll in the 1990s. On Monday, a federal appeals court upheld the 2023 verdict in the civil case, in which Trump was not…

Here is the situation on Saturday, January 25: Fighting Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed that its troops had fought their way into the strategically important eastern Ukrainian town of Velyka Novosilka, after a months-long battle. Ukraine’s military said that Russia launched 61 drones and two missiles into the country in an overnight attack, adding it shot…