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What did the early July 2025 headlines signal?
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A look back at two developments reported in the days before 6 July 2025: a suspension of US weapons shipments and a Ukrainian drone strike on a Russian factory.
What the July 2025 weapons pause meant for Kyiv
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A look back at the US decision to suspend air defence shipments to Ukraine, reported on 2 July 2025, and the Ukrainian strike that preceded it.
What did the Pentagon's weapons pause mean for Kyiv?
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An analysis of the 2 July 2025 order to halt shipments of air defence and other arms to Ukraine, set against a Ukrainian strike on an Izhevsk missile factory.
A tribunal signed as the strikes continued
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On 25 June 2025, Ukraine's president put his name to a deal on a special tribunal, days after deadly Russian strikes on Kyiv and Dnipro.
Can dual citizenship ease Ukraine's demographic strain?
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A retrospective on the days around 19 June 2025, when Ukraine's parliament moved on multiple citizenship as Russian strikes on Kyiv continued to kill civilians.
What did 1 June 2025 reveal about the war?
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A retrospective on a day that combined a record Russian drone barrage, a deadly strike on a training camp and a Ukrainian operation deep inside Russia.
What did the last week of May 2025 signal?
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A retrospective on the Russian air assault of 25 May, the lifting of range limits on Ukraine's weapons, and a leak of Russian procurement files.
What did the 28 May 2025 document leak reveal?
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A look back at a day when a large trove of Russian procurement records surfaced, days after Berlin's announcement on long-range weapons.
Drones, diplomacy and a ban: 19 May 2025
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A look back at a day when Russian pressure on Ukraine, on rights groups and on Belarus's neighbours played out in parallel.
What did 30 April 2025 reveal about Russia's war?
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A look back at reports from late April 2025 on North Korean losses, a announced ceasefire and a court verdict against a former president.
What Rubio's "matter of days" warning signalled
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A look back at the US ultimatum on Ukraine peace talks, set against a deadly drone attack on Dnipro two days earlier.
What did 8 April 2025 reveal about the front?
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A retrospective on the day Ukraine's president confirmed troops inside Belgorod Oblast, as Russian forces pressed into Sumy Oblast and Kryvyi Rih mourned.
Who was undermining the energy ceasefire?
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A retrospective on 19 March 2025, when Kyiv and Moscow traded accusations over a newly agreed pause in strikes on energy infrastructure.
What did 13 March 2025 reveal about ceasefire talks?
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A look back at the day Vladimir Putin tied a US ceasefire proposal to Russian conditions, amid a week of battlefield and diplomatic shifts.
What did 10 March 2025 follow in Ukraine?
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A look back at the reports from 8 and 9 March 2025 that preceded the covered date: two deadly Russian strikes and a French aid pledge.
What did Starmer take to Washington?
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A look back at the talks on Russia's war against Ukraine that the UK prime minister held with the US president, days after a minerals deal was announced.
What the 25 February 2025 minerals announcement signalled
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A look back at a day when Kyiv announced a minerals deal with Washington, after a UN vote that exposed divisions over the war.
Zelenskyy's resignation offer and Europe's anniversary protests
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On 23 February 2025, Ukraine's president tied his possible exit from office to NATO membership, as demonstrators marked three years of full-scale war.
Riyadh talks sidelined Kyiv and Europe
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A retrospective on 18 February 2025, when US and Russian delegations met in Saudi Arabia without Ukrainian or European participation.
What did the Chernobyl drone strike reveal?
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A retrospective on 14 February 2025, when a drone hit the shelter over the Chernobyl site as diplomacy over the war gathered pace.
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