Ukraine’s lights still burn, even if not all the time
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Ukraine’s lights still burn, even if not all the time

by Chris Hennemeyer

About the author: Chris Hennemeyer is a longtime humanitarian worker who spent nearly 40 years in crisis zones across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans, Haiti, and briefly Ukraine. Since retiring in 2022, he has spent half of each year volunteering in Ukraine. I wake in the early morning here in Odesa, dark and still, the kind of quiet that means the power is out and the noisy belching generators haven’t yet started up. A look at my phone reveals that the Russians fired 705 air-borne

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Ukraine war latest: UK Armed Forces member dies during weapons test in Ukraine

Hello, this is Chris York reporting from Kyiv on day 1,385 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: A member of the British Armed Forces died in Ukraine during the testing of a "new defensive capability" on Dec. 9, the U.K. Defense Ministry has said. "It is with deep regret that we must announce that a member of the U.K. Armed Forces died in Ukraine this morning," the ministry said in a statement on social media. "He was injured in a tragic accident whilst observ

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