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Explainer: How Ukraine’s biggest corruption scheme persisted despite all odds
Ukraine's largest corruption scandal in years came to light last year with a wave of arrests, sanctions, and a political shakeup. New revelations over the past few weeks suggest that produced little result. Last November, Ukraine’s anti-corruption authorities' Operation Midas uncovered a $100 million money-laundering and bribery scheme that implicated high-ranking officials and associates close to President Volodymyr Zelensky, largely through state-owned energy company Energoatom. At the cente
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,505,380 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
The figure includes 1,500 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
Russia strikes multi-story apartment building in Odesa, injuring at least 12
Odesa's emergency response teams were deployed to assist the affected people at the scene. All of the injured victims have been hospitalized.
Ukrainian drones hit Russian manufacturing sites in Tolyatti, Taganrog
Ukrainian forces appear to have struck industrial sites in the Russian cities of Tolyatti and Taganrog on Sept. 12, Russian Telegram media channels reported.
Half a million Russian troops killed since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine, British intel reports
UK intelligence said the number of Russian casualties, meaning killed, wounded, and missing, is thought to be 1.5 million since February 2022, matching Ukrainian estimates.
Russia uses AI in cyberattacks against Ukraine, Europe, targeting WhatsApp accounts, government ministries, Anthropic says
"A common theme of the targeting was Ukraine and military drone technology providers and supply chains," Anthropic wrote in a report on countering AI misuse.
About Donetsk Oblast
The Kyiv Independent's news and on-the-ground reporting from Donetsk Oblast, covering 26,517 square kilometers (10,239 square miles) in Ukraine’s East with a pre-war population of approximately 4.1 million. The administrative center is Kramatorsk, as Donetsk city has remained under Russian occupation since 2014. Donetsk Oblast has been the scene of intense fighting, for example, around the cities of Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Vuhledar, as Moscow attempts to capture the entire region.
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Russia's total military losses in Ukraine have reached 1,500,870, Ukraine's General Staff said on Sept. 9, marking another grim milestone in the war for the Kremlin. It took roughly two years and three months for the Russian Armed Forces to incur their first 500,000 casualties. Moscow has now suffered roughly the same number in just the past 15 months, as technology increasingly shapes the battlefield and drones expand the kill zone almost daily. The Kremlin's total personnel losses in Ukraine
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