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Ukraine has liberated around 54% of the maximum amount of territory Russia seized since February 24, 2022, says the U.K. Ministry of Defense. Russia now controls around 18% of internationally recognized areas of Ukraine, including the Donbas and Crimea regions under Russian control since 2014.
Russia is turning to decades-old ammunition with high failure rates as it burns through its stockpiles to carry out its nearly 10-month-old invasion of Ukraine, a senior U.S. military official said on Monday,
"They have drawn from (Russia's) aging ammunition stockpile, which does indicate that they are willing to use that older ammunition, some of which was originally produced more than 40 years ago," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The United States accuses Russia of turning to Iran and North Korea for more firepower as it exhausts its regular supplies of ammunition.
The senior U.S. military official assessed that Russia would burn through its fully-serviceable stocks of ammunition by early 2023 if it did not resort to foreign suppliers and older stocks.
U.S. talk show host David Letterman has done many interviews in his life - but never one quite like this, Reuters reported.
In October, the late-night host traveled to Kyiv to interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the safest part of the city — a subway platform 300 feet (90 meters) below ground.
A small audience watched in the semi-dark as subway trains rumbled past. At one point a siren went off. Letterman looked alarmed, but no one else reacted. What did that indicate, he asked?
"Unfortunately, it means that war has become a habit," said Zelenskyy. "Many Ukrainians have gotten used to it... To me sirens are an indicator that war is not over... this is a reminder that somewhere, someone is giving up their life for yours."
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The heads of the International Energy Agency and European Union’s executive branch say the 27-nation bloc is expected to weather an energy crisis this winter,
But they say Europe needs to speed renewables to the market and take other steps to avoid a potential natural gas shortage next year. Russia cut most natural gas to Europe amid the war in Ukraine, but EU countries largely have been able to fill gas storage for the heating season by tapping new supplies, saving energy and benefiting from mild weather and low demand from China amid COVID-19 lockdowns. But those reasons could evaporate next year.
The leader of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee concedes it would be “impossible” to monitor which athletes have supported the war in Ukraine if a plan is devised to allow some Russians to compete as neutrals in international competitions, and potentially the Olympics,
USOPC chair Susanne Lyons says the federation supported last week’s decision at an IOC summit to explore a pathway for Russian athletes back into competition. Among the conditions would be that those athletes would be subject to a strict ban on displaying Russian flags and colors, and that they could not have backed the war.
Every evening under Russian occupation, Inga covered the windows, strung a copper wire to her headphones, and ran around her house looking for radio signals,
Sometimes she was lucky and was able to pick up programming from Donbas.Realities, a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service -- the only source of information accessible in the town of Kapytolivka near her hometown of Izyum, where she had fled with her husband following the invasion.
Inga says it was these snippets of outside information that gave her hope while Russian forces held Kapytolivka captive for seven months. Others in the town believed this was it, that the Russians would never leave. But for Inga, there were glimmers of hope during the occupation that Izyum and Kapytolivka, where her husband's mother lives, would be freed one day.
Ukraine needs rapid assistance totaling $1 billion to return its electricity grid and centralized heating system to normal operation, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Monday,
Shmyhal, in an address to a meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said Russian air attacks in recent weeks had damaged half the country's key infrastructure facilities.
Restoration work, he said, required a three-stage process.