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What 12 December 2024 showed about the war

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A look back at a day when strikes, arms sales and nuclear signalling framed the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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What Zelenskyy's casualty figures meant for Ukraine

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A look back at the war-loss numbers Ukraine's president gave on 8 December 2024, and how the background figures frame them.

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What 6 December 2024 showed about the war's reach

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A Minsk security agreement and deadly missile strikes in two Ukrainian cities marked a day when the war's pressure was felt well beyond the front line.

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What the Minsk nuclear pact meant for Europe

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A look back at a day when security guarantees, missile strikes and a Baltic incident shared the same news cycle.

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What happened on 6 December 2024 across the region

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A security pact in Minsk, deadly missile strikes in Ukraine and a Baltic incident formed one tense stretch of the war.

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Baltic warning shots and a new US arms package

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A look back at 4 December 2024, when a Russian warship's actions near a German helicopter sharpened concerns about Russia's pressure on NATO.

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What did Kyiv gain by 2 December 2024?

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A look back at a package of US weapons, a conditional ceasefire offer and a damaging strike on infrastructure.

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What did Zelenskyy offer on ceasefire terms?

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A retrospective on a 29 November 2024 statement linking a ceasefire to NATO protection, one day after a large Russian strike on infrastructure.

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What the November 2024 drone and contractor news meant

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A look back at two developments reported in the days before 14 November 2024, one over Moscow and one in Washington's policy on Ukraine.

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Pressure on Russia's war machine, 13 November 2024

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Sanctions, contractors and drones showed three separate ways Ukraine's partners and forces pushed back in the days before 13 November 2024.

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What did Moscow's drone strike change in November?

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A retrospective on the 10 November 2024 attack, in which 34 Ukrainian drones struck Moscow and disrupted air travel.

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What did the US contractor decision change?

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A look back at 9 November 2024 and the Western steps on arms upkeep and sanctions that came just before it.

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Did sanctions and aid signal resolve on 7 November 2024?

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A look back at the British sanctions package and the US aid pledge that framed the days after a deadly strike on Zaporizhzhia.

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What Biden's aid push meant for Kyiv

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An analysis of the expedited US military aid announced on 6 November 2024, set against fighting in Zaporizhzhia and Kursk.

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Russian gains and a Chechnya drone strike

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A look back at two developments in Russia's war on Ukraine reported in the days up to 30 October 2024.

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What did 24 October 2024 reveal about the war?

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A look back at a day when the front near Selydove, new foreign involvement and Western financing pointed in different directions.

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North Korean troops and Russia's widening war

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A look back at 21 October 2024 and the foreign hands already visible in the war in Ukraine in the days before it.

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Foreign hands deepen in Russia's war on Ukraine

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A look back at how 16 October 2024 pointed to widening outside involvement in the war, from North Korean troops to Western arms and EU sanctions.

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What 13 October 2024 showed about Ukraine's strains

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On one day in October 2024, reports of foreign troops, a contested city and street-level recruitment pointed to pressure on Ukraine's front and home front alike.

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What 7 kilometres meant for Pokrovsk

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A look back at the warning from Pokrovsk's military administration on 4 October 2024, and at a strike on Kharkiv two days earlier.

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