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Men are seen through a smashed window of a damaged truck following a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Ukrainian presidency: 10 killed in latest Russian shelling

By Susie Blann - Associated Press

A Leopard 2A6 main battle tank drives through a pool of water during preparations for the 'Land Operations 2017' information training exercise in Munster, Germany, Sept 25, 2017. The German government has confirmed it will provide Ukraine with Leopard 2 battle tanks and approve requests by other countries to do the same. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that Germany was 'acting in close coordination' with its allies. (Philipp Schulze/dpa via AP, file)

Russia downplays West’s move on tanks, strikes Ukraine again

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In this undated photo, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Viacheslav Shapovalov poses for a photo in Kyiv, Ukraine. Shapovalov resigned, local media reported Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, alleging his departure was linked to a scandal involving the purchase of food for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. (Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Office via AP)

Ukraine corruption scandal ousts top officials amid war

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A woman stands in front of a display of destroyed Russian tanks and armoured vehicles in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Russia official warns West of destruction for arming Ukraine

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

People pay their respects at the scene where a helicopter crashed into civil infrastructure on Wednesday, in Brovary, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Russia claims progress in eastern Ukraine; Kyiv craves tanks

By Andrew Meldrum and Barry Hatton - Associated Press

Alina Kapatsyna sits in a house in Dnipro, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Men in military uniforms took her mother 45-year-old Vita Hannych away from her house in eastern Ukraine in April. Since the war in Ukraine began, many civilians have been detained by Russian forces and are languishing in jails for months without charges as their relatives seek to find out what's happened to them. (AP Photo/Hanna Arhirova)

Ukrainian civilians vanish and languish in Russian-run jails

By Hanna Arhirova and Dasha Litvinova - Associated Press

A view of an apartment building, damaged during a heavy fighting, in Mariupol, in Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Kremlin-ordered truce is uncertain amid mutual mistrust

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

Local residents carry their belongings as they leave their home ruined in the Saturday Russian rocket attack in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

Russia presses its Ukraine strategy, fires 40 drones at Kyiv

By Felipe Dana - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldier Vasyl Khomko, 42, carries flowers as he waits for his wife and daughter at the train station in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Khomko's wife and daughter have been living in Slovakia due to the war but returned to Kyiv to spend New Year's Eve together. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

Russian strikes intensify as Ukrainians return for holiday

By Renata Brito - Associated Press

A local woman walks to the distribution point of humanitarian aid in front of housing which was damaged by Russian shelling in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia launches massive missile barrage across Ukraine

By Renata Brito and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

Ukrainian servicemen carry the coffin of their comrade during the funeral ceremony for Volodymyr Yezhov killed in a battlefield with Russian forces, at St. Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. Yezhov was a game designer in the development of the game Cossacks 2. He was also one of the authors of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. Yezhov was also one of the most famous Ukrainian e-sportsmen — played StarCraft under the nickname Fresh. Since the Russian invasion, Volodymyr Yezhov went to the frontline and fought as part of the volunteer squadron. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Concessions refusals block any hope for Russia-Ukraine peace talks

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Ukrainian soldiers fire a French-made CAESAR self-propelled howitzer towards Russian positions near Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Libkos)

Russia says it shot down Ukrainian drone near airbase

By E. Eduardo Castillo and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

Young artists perform as people gather at the Christmas tree decorated for Christmas and the New Year festivities in Luhansk, the capital of Russian-controlled Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. (AP Photo)

Shells pummel Ukraine’s Kherson; 10 dead, 55 wounded

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A cross on the new tomb with the writing &quot;Unknown woman&quot; in a cemetery in Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian invaders, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/LIBKOS)

Zelenskyy visits front, Putin praises troops in Kremlin

By E. Eduardo Castillo - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Dnipro Region Administration, Municipal workers dismantle a monument of Russian writer Alexander Pushkin in the city centre of Dnipro, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Ukraine is accelerating efforts to erase the vestiges of centuries of Soviet and Russian influence from the public space by pulling down monuments and renaming hundreds of streets to honor home-grown artists, poets, military chiefs, and independence leaders, even heroes of this year's war. (Dnipro Region Administration via AP)

Wartime Ukraine erasing Russian past from public spaces

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Residents watch at a burning infrastructure project hit during a massive Russian drone night strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Night-time drone attack hits Kyiv as Putin heads to Belarus

By Hanna Arhirova and Vailisa Stepanenko - Associated Press

A woman passes by anti-tank hedgehogs in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. Ukraine has been fighting with the Russian invaders since Feb. 24 for over nine months. The mayor of Kyiv is reporting multiple explosions, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, in the Ukrainian capital, the first such time in weeks during Russia’s ongoing war against the country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ukraine: Russian strikes thwarted, wreckage hits buildings

By Hanna Arhirova and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

The Shchedryk youth choir performs a Christmas concert at Copenhagen’s Church of the Holy Spirit, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday, Dec. 8 2022. The Shchedryk ensemble, described as Kyiv’s oldest professional children’s choir, were in the Danish capital this week for a performance as part of an international tour that also took them to New York’s famed Carnegie Hall. (AP Photo/James Brooks)

Ukrainian youth choir defies war with messages of freedom

By James Brookes - Associated Press

Workers of the electricity supply company DTEK maintain power lines by cutting off excess branches in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Ukrainian utility crews struggling to patch up power lines during a two-month Russian military blitz targeting Ukrainian infrastructure are learning to adapt. And just as on the battlefield, Ukrainians are learning to respond quickly on the new energy front drawn inside homes, hospitals, offices, and schools in yet another act of defiance against a powerful invader. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)

Ukraine utility crews adapt, overcome after Russian strikes

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

In this handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, a Russian Tu-95 taxies at a base as part of Russia's nuclear drills. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Two blasts reported at Russian bases for strategic bombers far from Ukraine border

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times