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The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is near its fourth anniversary, with peace talks stuck on the issue of territorial control.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused the U.S. of focusing on Ukrainian concessions to bring an end to the war, rather than pressing Russia.
For Ukraine, this war is a continuation of Russia’s 2014 invasion. For Russia, what was branded as a “special military operation” has now gone on longer than even the Soviet Union’s “Great Patriotic War” from 1941 to 1945 and has cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
Russia still has many air defenses, and experience it gained against Ukraine actually makes them a bigger threat to NATO aircraft than before 2022.
Twenty athletes from Russia and Belarus are competing at the Winter Olympics as neutral. Moscow has asked for its athletes to be fully reinstated in international competition, and sporting bodies are beginning to open the door to those once completely banned from participating.
As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reminded European leaders at the Munich Security Conference, Ukraine is still badly in need of military hardware, including Tomahawks and missiles for Patriot defense systems.
Ukraine reportedly strikes major Russian ammunition depot with domestically produced "Flamingo" cruise missiles in latest escalating conflict development.
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Russia's offensive in Ukraine comes at high cost — UK intel
On certain front-line directions, Russian troops are suffering losses up to 25 times higher than those of Ukrainian defenders, largely due to the mass use of drones that is shifting the battlefield in Ukraine's favor,