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What Izium's woods revealed on 15 September 2022

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A look back at the day Ukrainian police reported a mass grave of more than 440 bodies in a recaptured city, as the front moved and the war reached civilian infrastructure.

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What Izium's mass graves revealed on 15 September 2022

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A look back at the day Ukrainian police reported a mass grave of more than 440 bodies in recaptured Izium, amid a fast-moving counteroffensive.

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What did 14 September 2022 reveal about the war?

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A look back at the day Russia struck a dam near Kryvyi Rih, as Ukrainian advances in Kharkiv Oblast reshaped the picture.

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What Kharkiv's collapse meant for Russia's war

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A look back at 12 September 2022, when Ukrainian advances in Kharkiv Oblast reached Svatove and Russian municipal deputies called for Putin's resignation.

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What Ukraine's Kharkiv advance showed by 9 September 2022

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A look back at a day when Kyiv claimed large territorial gains in the north-east while shelling continued in Sumy Oblast.

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What did 9 September 2022 show about the front?

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A look back at a day when Ukraine claimed major gains in Kharkiv Oblast while shelling continued in Sumy Oblast.

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Where was the pressure building on 8 September 2022?

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A look back at a week in which battlefield gains in Ukraine and a gas stand-off with Russia unfolded side by side.

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What the Kherson offensive claims signalled in August 2022

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A look back at reports from 29 August 2022 on a declared ground offensive, strikes on Nova Kakhovka and shelling of Mykolaiv.

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What did Ukraine's Kherson offensive claim signal?

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A look back at reports from 29 August 2022 on a declared ground offensive, strikes on Nova Kakhovka and shelling of Mykolaiv.

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What happened in Zaporizhzhia before 28 August 2022?

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A look back at two reports from southern Ukraine in the days before 28 August 2022, involving a power plant and a bombing in Berdiansk.

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Was Zaporizhzhia's grid cut a turning point?

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A look back at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant's disconnection and reconnection, and the violence around it in late August 2022.

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What Slovakia's BMP-1 pledge meant on 23 August 2022

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A look back at a day that brought a new offer of armoured vehicles for Ukraine and a reported strike in Donetsk.

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What did the poisoning claim and Voznesensk shelling show?

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Two reports from southern Ukraine, dated 20 August 2022, set a Russian allegation beside a regional governor's account of civilian casualties.

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Voznesensk shelling and the Zaporizhzhia poisoning claim

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A look back at two southern Ukraine reports from 20 August 2022, days before 22 August 2022.

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Was Crimea becoming a front line by 18 August 2022?

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Explosions across Crimea and Russian border regions, and Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities, marked a widening of the war's geography.

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Was 18 August 2022 a turning point for Crimea?

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A look back at a day of explosions across Crimea and Belgorod Oblast, and the strikes that preceded and followed them.

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Kharkiv, Odesa and Mykolaiv under fire: 17 August 2022

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A look back at a day of Russian missile strikes across Ukraine, coming a day after an explosion at a Crimean ammunition depot.

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What did the Crimea depot blast signal?

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A look back at an ammunition depot explosion in northern Crimea and a New Zealand training pledge announced a day earlier.

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What did 8 August 2022 reveal about the war?

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A look back at a day when a record US aid package arrived amid reports of damage at a nuclear plant and mounting civilian harm.

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What 5 August 2022 showed about the war's wider fronts

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A look back at a day when the war touched a nuclear plant, foreign-owned assets and the occupation administration in Kherson Oblast.

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