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Armenia's coalition turns on Moscow over Karabakh

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A retrospective on 14 December 2022, when Armenian governing-coalition MPs accused Russia of seeking to push Yerevan into a new war, as the war in Ukraine ground on.

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What 9 December 2022 showed about the war

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A look back at a day of abductions at Zaporizhzhia, a Moscow sentence and continued shelling in Donetsk region.

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Donetsk shelling kills civilians in two towns

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A look back at Russian shelling of Kurakhove and Toretsk in the Donetsk region on 7 and 8 December 2022.

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What did 5 December 2022 mean for both sides?

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A look back at a day of drone strikes on Russian air bases and missile strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure.

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What did the week of 21 November 2022 reveal?

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A look back at a stretch of missile strikes, a stray missile in Poland and a nuclear plant under shelling, as it stood on the eve of 21 November 2022.

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Shelling at Zaporizhzhia as Ukraine lost power

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A look back at 20 November 2022, when shelling hit a Russian-controlled nuclear plant while millions of Ukrainians were without electricity.

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What the Przewodów missile blast revealed

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An analysis of how a deadly explosion in eastern Poland, on a day of heavy Russian strikes, was first read as an attack and then attributed to Ukrainian air defence.

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What did Kherson's liberation change by 14 November 2022?

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Days after Ukrainian troops entered Kherson, a look at the retreat, the destroyed bridge, the new aid package and the other news of the period.

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Kherson's return and the war's wider costs

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A look back at 13 November 2022, two days after Ukrainian troops entered Kherson and as the war's economic toll kept mounting.

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What did Kherson's liberation change on 11 November 2022?

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A retrospective on the day Ukrainian troops entered Kherson, ending an eight-month occupation, as Russian forces blew up a bridge behind them.

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Kherson retreat and the shape of the south

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On 10 November 2022, Ukrainian gains around Kherson and a new US weapons package marked a turning point in the southern campaign.

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Kherson retreat: what 9 November 2022 announced

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A look back at the day Russian forces announced their withdrawal from the western bank of the Dnieper, and at the other news that came with it.

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What did Ukraine's first NASAMS delivery signal?

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A look back at the arrival of the air-defence system confirmed on 7 November 2022, and at a regional economic ripple reported two days earlier.

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What did Washington and Warsaw allege on 2 November?

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A look back at two claims about Russia that surfaced days before 4 November 2022, one on artillery shells and one on a border barrier.

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Is the war's shadow spreading across Europe's borders?

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A look back at 2 November 2022, when reports from Washington, Warsaw, Oslo and Chișinău showed the war's effects reaching beyond Ukraine.

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What the war's spillover looked like on 2 November 2022

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A look back at how the war's effects reached Ukraine's neighbours and drew in new actors in the days around 2 November 2022.

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Who was arming and fortifying around Ukraine?

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A look back at 2 November 2022 and the days before it, when allegations of foreign arms supplies and border and alert measures spread across the region.

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What Russia's 29 October 2022 accusations signalled

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Moscow tied a Sevastopol drone claim, a grain-deal suspension and an allegation against Britain into a single day of charges.

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Dnipro strike and Ukraine's strained power grid

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A look back at 26 October 2022, when a missile strike on Dnipro came amid weeks of attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

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Dnipro strike and Ukraine's strained power grid

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A look back at 26 October 2022, when a missile strike on Dnipro killed two people as attacks on energy sites left Ukrainians facing outages.

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