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Ukraine wins Women’s Wrestling World Cup

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Ukraine won its first-ever women’s freestyle wrestling World Cup title on Dec. 11 after beating China 6-4.

Climbing up to the finals at the two-day freestyle World Cup events hosted by the U.S., Ukraine defeated the third-place Mongolia team with a score of 7-3 and the six-time champions Japan with 5-5 (24-17).

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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