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Watch: Residents of Kyiv celebrate the Julian calendar New Year

People wearing traditional dresses have performed and sung carols to celebrate 'Malanka', the Julian calendar New Year, in a metro station used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv.

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Ukraine holding out in cities of Soledar and Bakhmut

Fighting continues in Soledar as Ukraine denies Russia's claim to have taken control of the city

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Watch: Ukraine’s army still relies on Soviet-era tanks

Many of Ukraine's tanks are old Soviet models like the T-64 and due to the stresses of war, it's becoming increasingly hard to maintain them.

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Ukraine curators in mission to save Balakliya museum cultural heritage

Curators at a museum a few kilometres from Ukraine's front line are trying to remove thousands of exhibits for safe keeping.

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Refugees in Western Ukraine hope to go home soon

Since the outbreak of the war, almost five million internally displaced people have been registered by the Ukrainian authorities. Many of them have arrived in Transcarpathia because it's far from the fighting, without leaving their homeland. We visited a refugee centre in one of the small villages.

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Germany to supply Ukraine with armoured vehicles

Germany is backing Poland's idea of an international coalition to supply armoured fighting vehicles to Ukraine and vows to provide Kyiv with around 40 by the end of March

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Fierce fighting rages in Soledar as Russia looks to seize Bakhmut

Soledar is strategically important for Russia in its quest for Bakhmut and control of Donbas.

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Poland and Lithuania to send German-made Leopard tanks to Ukraine

During a visit to Lviv in Ukraine, Poland's President Andrzej Duda met with his Ukrainian and Lithuanian counterparts, where he announced the dispatch of 14 coveted German-made Leopard tanks.

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Banksy auction for Ukraine attacked by Russian IPs

50 prints of Banksy's 'Fragile/Agile' work were on sale when Russian internet addresses attacked.

Ukraine

Russian mercenaries battle Ukrainian resistance in Soledar

Russia's mercenary Wagner Group has claimed control over the eastern Ukrainian salt mining town, although Kyiv said its forces were holding out.

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German FM says Karkhiv represents the 'absolute madness' of war

German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, makes susprise visit to war-torn Kharkiv, while Russia looks to Bakhmut.

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Russian missile destroys market in Kharkiv region killing two people

At least two women were killed and at least seven were injured after a Russian missile hit Shevechenkove in the Kharkiv region on Monday

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Two scenarios for a possible Ukrainian counteroffensive

The UK Ministry of Defence suggested that Russian forces face two equally exigent counteroffensive scenarios: in the North East of Ukraine, in Luhansk, and in the South in the Zaporizhzhya region.

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Ukraine denies Russian claim it killed hundreds of soldiers

Just days after Ukraine killed hundreds of Russian fighters in an attack on a temporary barracks in the town of Makiivka on New Year's Eve, Moscow claims to have carried out a retaliation operation in Kramatorsk.

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Watch: How constant shelling has destroyed a village in Ukraine

Hundreds of people used to live in Bohorodychany but now around ten remain living in the rubble with limited electricity and water

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Ukrainian villagers cling on despite constant shelling

At least ten residents remain in a small village in the Donetsk region during the Orthodox Christmas, despite constant shelling

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Putin attends Orthodox Christmas mass alone as war in Ukraine rages on

Moscow has claimed its forces observed the ceasefire, but media reports say both sides exchanged artillery fire in eastern Ukraine after Putin's deadline.

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Watch: Ukrainians in Donbas celebrate Orthodox Christmas

In the front-line town of Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region, dozens of worshippers on Friday attended a service to mark Orthodox Christmas Eve.

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Ukrainians celebrate Christmas Eve as power cuts interrupt Holy Mass

"It actually helps us when the lights are out...the liturgy sounds different and we experience it differently. We're not complaining," said Archimandrite Tychon of Saint Nicholas Monastery.

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Orthodox celebrate Christmas in Russia & Ukraine in shadow of war

Both Russian and Ukrainian presidents marked the occasion, with Vladimir Putin calling for a 36-hour ceasefire and Volodymyr Zelensky hailing Ukrainians for their fighting spirit.

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