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What did 11 March 2022 reveal about the war?
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A retrospective on a day of airstrikes, a kidnapped mayor, sanctions and talk of talks, as the invasion spread beyond the front lines.
What did 6 March 2022 reveal about diplomacy?
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A look back at a day of phone calls, mediation offers and continued strikes in the second week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
What did 28 February 2022 change for Ukraine?
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A look back at a day of first talks, financial shocks, contested claims and a formal bid for EU membership.
Fighting in Kyiv and the diplomacy around it
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An analysis of how battlefield reports, sanctions and calls for mediation fitted together on the second day of Russia's full-scale invasion.
What did 24 February 2022 set in motion?
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A look back at the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from the pre-dawn announcement to the first sanctions and border movements.
Why did NATO's flank and Ireland's waters converge?
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Two announcements on 29 January 2022 showed how the Russia–NATO standoff reached both eastern Europe and the Atlantic.
Was Europe bracing for war on 29 January 2022?
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A look back at a day when allied troop deployments, warnings from Washington and denials from Moscow and Minsk shaped the diplomacy around Ukraine.
What did Kyiv's 9 January 2022 rally say?
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A look back at a Kyiv demonstration against Russian pressure, set beside two other reports from the days before it.
What Biden's troop ruling-out meant for Ukraine
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A look back at 8 December 2021, when Washington set out the limits of its response to a possible Russian invasion.
What did Turkey's mediation offer mean in December 2021?
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A look back at 3 December 2021 and the events of the preceding week, including a Turkish offer to mediate and a deadly gas blast in Mykolaiv region.
What did late November 2021 reveal about Kyiv's region?
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A look back at the tense final days of November 2021, from accusations of a coup plot to a border crisis and a Turkish mediation offer.
Kyiv's tense week before December 2021
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A look back at the late-November signals from Kyiv, Ankara and the Belarusian border as 1 December 2021 approached.
What did Turkey's mediation offer change in 2021?
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A look back at Ankara's proposal to broker talks between Kyiv and Moscow, made on 29 November 2021.
Gas threats and migrants: Belarus border, 13 November 2021
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A look back at how a migrant standoff on the EU's eastern frontier spilled into energy politics and left Ukraine reinforcing its own border.
Was Moscow behind the Belarus border crisis?
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A look back at 9 November 2021, when Warsaw pointed at Moscow and Lithuania declared a state of emergency.
Two border and street flashpoints on 3 November 2021
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A retrospective on a Kyiv anti-vaccination rally and a Polish summons of Belarus's envoy, both reported on the same day.
What happened on 3 November 2021 in Kyiv and Poland?
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A look back at two separate reports from 3 November 2021: a protest in Kyiv against vaccination and a border incident involving Belarusian troops in Poland.
Kyiv protest and a Polish border incident
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A look back at two stories from 3 November 2021, one on Kyiv's streets and one on the Belarus–Poland border.
Did drones and walls redraw Europe's eastern edge?
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A look back at 31 October 2021, when Ukraine's first Bayraktar strikes and Poland's border build-up marked a tense end to October.
What did Ukraine's first drone strike signal?
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A look back at 31 October 2021, after a week in which a Turkish-made drone entered the Donbas fighting and Poland reinforced its border with Belarus.
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