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What did 23 August 2023 show about the air war?

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A look back at a day of Russian drone strikes on a school and on grain stores, set against Ukrainian and Western moves in the preceding days.

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What did 9 August 2023 show about the war?

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A look back at a day of missile fire on Zaporizhzhia, a security arrest and new Canadian sanctions on Belarus.

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What 9 August 2023 showed about the war's reach

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A look back at a day of missile fire in Zaporizhzhia, a security case in Kyiv and sanctions announced in Ottawa.

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What did 2 August 2023 show about the war's reach?

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A look back at a day when a drone strike hit Izmail's grain storage while the effects of earlier attacks on Moscow and Kryvyi Rih were still being felt.

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What the 1 August 2023 Moscow drone strikes showed

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A look back at a day when drones reached central Moscow, flights were rerouted and tensions rose on Poland's border with Belarus.

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What 31 July 2023 showed about the war's reach

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A look back at a day of missile strikes in Ukraine, drones over Moscow and sanctions over a Russian activist's sentence.

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What did 31 July 2023 reveal about the war?

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A look back at a day of missile strikes in Kryvyi Rih, drones over Moscow and sanctions over the Kara-Murza case.

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What did 27 July 2023 signal beyond Ukraine?

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A look back at a day when missile strikes, Western aid and a Pyongyang ceremony pointed to wider alignments around the war.

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What the 26 July 2023 missile barrage showed

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A retrospective on a cruise missile attack on three Ukrainian regions and the Western aid and Russian strikes that preceded it.

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What 24 July 2023 showed about the war's reach

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A look back at a day of strikes on Ukrainian ports, towns and cities, a drone incident in Moscow and a US sanctions announcement.

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What did Odesa's grain stores lose on 21 July 2023?

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A look back at a day of Russian missile strikes on Odesa and Mykolaiv, set against fresh Western aid and sanctions announced days earlier.

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What did 20 July 2023 reveal about the war?

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A look back at a day when Western aid, Russian strikes, a Crimea fire and new sanctions framed the conflict's shape.

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What Russia's July 2023 moves said about wartime control

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A look back at three developments reported between 16 and 18 July 2023, from corporate takeovers to conscription ages and a killing in Transnistria.

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What did 17 July 2023 reveal about the war's edges?

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A look back at a day on which reports from the days around it pointed to corporate retreat, foreign aid and unrest beyond Ukraine's borders.

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What Putin's Danone and Baltika takeover signalled

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A retrospective on the decree of 16 July 2023 placing two foreign-owned companies under temporary Russian state control.

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Vilnius security pledges and Russian strikes, 13 July 2023

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A look back at the day after the NATO summit in Vilnius ended, when promises of long-term support met continued Russian attacks.

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Vilnius security pledges and Kyiv's drone night

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A look back at 13 July 2023, a day when allied promises for Ukraine's long-term security met continuing Russian strikes.

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Lviv struck: what 6 July 2023 showed

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A retrospective on a Kalibr missile attack on western Ukraine and the days of strikes and shelling that preceded it.

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What happened in Kyiv's courtroom on 5 July 2023?

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A look back at the Shevchenkivskyi District Court explosion and the wartime reports that surrounded it.

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Strikes, sanctions and Saakashvili: Ukraine's 4 July 2023

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A look back at how attacks on civilians, a corporate blacklisting and a diplomatic request converged in the days around 4 July 2023.

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