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General Staff: Russia has lost 100,950 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24

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Ukraine’s General Staff reported on Dec. 23 that Russia had also lost 3,005 tanks, 5,986 armored fighting vehicles, 4,622 vehicles and fuel tanks,1,984 artillery systems, 414 multiple launch rocket systems, 212 air defense systems, 283 airplanes, 267 helicopters, 1,698 drones, and 16 boats.

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Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on Jan. 10 condemned Iran's crackdown on anti-government protests and called on the international community to increase pressure on Tehran, drawing parallels between its domestic repression and its conduct on the global stage.

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Russia’s takeover of Crimea did not begin in 2014. In the first part of a new documentary, The Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigation Unit looks at how Russia began moving to seize the peninsula immediately after Ukraine gained independence in 1991.

"We are surging investment into our preparations (...) ensuring that Britain’s Armed Forces are ready to deploy, and lead, the multinational force (in) Ukraine, because a secure Ukraine means a secure U.K.," U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey said.

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