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Ukraine approves more than 80 companies for private air defense
As Russia shifts its bombardment tactics to near-hourly drone attacks throughout the day, increasingly targeting civilian infrastructure, more businesses are joining the program.
As Russia attacks Ukraine’s grid, solar offers a path to resilience
This story was produced by Grist and co-published with the Kyiv Independent. On a spring day earlier this year, 10 men stood on the rooftop of a door manufacturing facility in the central Ukrainian town of Bila Tserkva, surveying the rows of solar panels that surrounded them. Since Russia invaded in 2022, the town has endured repeated attacks, triggering mass power outages. For the factory, which supplies doors to homes and businesses, keeping production going had become extremely challenging.
Russia plans new prison complex in occupied Kherson Oblast among wider prison expansion
Apart from occupied Kherson Oblast, Russia plans to build the complexes in Kaluga, Astrakhan, and Tyumen oblasts, Buryatia, and Zabaykalsky Krai, while the first is expected to open in Tatarstan by 2030.
Ukraine hits Russian bomber in occupied Crimea, General Staff says
Ukrainian forces also struck three ground control stations for Russian drones, alongside other targets, the General Staff said.
Partisans claim sabotage at Russian plant producing missile components
"Our agent, after a long study of the facility, detailed planning, and searching for weak points, managed to infiltrate an electrical substation near the VZPP-Sborka plant," Atesh said.
Angelina Jolie visited Kharkiv during 3rd wartime trip to Ukraine in August
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie met with Ukrainian teachers and coaches who continue teaching and training children despite relentless Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure.
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Berlin is Germany's capital and largest city, with a population of approximately 3.7 million in the metropolitan area. The city serves as the seat of the German federal government and has played a central role in European responses to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine since February 2022. Berlin hosts major diplomatic meetings on Ukraine policy, coordinates significant military and financial aid deliveries, and shelters over 100,000 Ukrainian refugees who fled the war.
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The EU now has until Sept. 22 to renew its sanctions on 2,600 Russian entities and individuals. Attempts to reach an extension agreement have been stalled by calls to remove Russian billionaires from the list.
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