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What did 20 September 2024 add to Ukraine's war picture?

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A retrospective on a day of financing pledges, drone claims and a nuclear plant dispute.

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Kyiv's distancing from the Florida suspect

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A look back at how Ukrainian officials responded after a suspect in the attempt on Donald Trump's life was linked to Ukraine's cause.

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Who is really fighting Russia's war by 13 September 2024?

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A look back at a day when drones with Chinese parts, Western missile approvals and rival peace pitches shaped the argument over who is a party to the war.

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What did 3 September 2024 mean for Kyiv?

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A day of mass casualties in Poltava and a cabinet losing more than a third of its members, set against pressure on Mongolia over Vladimir Putin's visit.

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What did 30 August 2024 reveal about Kyiv's pressures?

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A look back at a day of air-war losses, a leadership change and a diplomatic appeal to Mongolia.

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What 28 August 2024 showed about Ukraine's reach

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Drone strikes on Russian oil sites came as Kyiv pressed its case on missiles, manpower and military aid oversight.

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Kursk claims and counterclaims on 13 August 2024

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A look back at a day when competing accounts of the Kursk incursion hardened, alongside a deadly missile strike on Kyiv two days earlier.

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What did 10 August 2024 show about the war?

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A look back at a day when Ukraine pressed its cross-border operation, Russia struck civilian and infrastructure targets, and Kyiv turned to questions of spiritual independence.

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Kursk incursion: what 6 August 2024 changed

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A look back at the day Ukraine launched an incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast, amid a week of battlefield and diplomatic shifts.

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Three pressures on Kyiv in late July 2024

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A look back at how finance, diplomacy and wartime law converged on Ukraine in the days around 25 July 2024.

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Warsaw's history condition for Ukraine's EU bid

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A Polish minister's remarks on 24 July 2024 tied Ukraine's path towards EU membership to unresolved wartime history.

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Two signals on Ukraine support, one day apart

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A look back at NATO's new Wiesbaden command and the EU boycott of Hungarian-hosted meetings, both announced on 15 July 2024.

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Missiles, diplomacy and a day of contrasts

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On 8 July 2024 a deadly Russian strike on Ukrainian cities coincided with visits and agreements that pulled in different directions.

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Why did English law matter on 27 June 2024?

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A language law signed in Kyiv sat among court rulings, a prisoner swap and a Baltic-Polish defence proposal in the same week.

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Sevastopol beach strike and its aftermath

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A look back at 23 June 2024, when a missile attack on a Crimean beach drew a Russian vow of retaliation against Washington.

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What Moldova's accession decree signalled in June 2024

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A look back at 21 June 2024, when Moldova's president signed the decree opening EU accession talks, amid other Ukraine-related announcements.

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What did 20 June 2024 add to Ukraine's support?

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A look back at Japanese sanctions on third-country firms and a Patriot delivery priority for Kyiv, both reported on 20 June 2024.

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What did the Bürgenstock summit leave behind?

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A look back at the day the two-day Swiss peace gathering closed, as aid pledges, battlefield claims and a march in Kyiv unfolded alongside it.

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What did 15 June 2024 mean for Ukraine?

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A look back at the diplomatic, financial and security moves that framed the weekend of 15 June 2024, from a US aid package to a rejected ceasefire offer.

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What the 11 June 2024 aid announcements signalled

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A look back at a day of Western commitments to Ukraine, from air defence to frozen-asset revenue.

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