The White House has announced a $2.5 billion aid package to Ukraine and pledged to "continue surging" aid to get it to the authorities in Kyiv "as quickly as possible."
There had been some speculation that the incumbent Georgian president, Salome Zurabishvili, would refuse to leave the presidential palace even after her successor was inaugurated. In the end, she left, but not without a fight.
Ukraine and Russia exchanged accusations of drone attacks as Russia's full-scale invasion grinds on toward its fourth year and suspicions swirl that a deadly plane crash in Kazakhstan was caused by a Russian air-defense missile.
An Azerbaijani lawmaker said the possibility is "very strong" that the crash of a passenger jet earlier this week was caused by Russian air defense systems on alert for Ukrainian drone attacks.
Experts say evidence indicates that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane may have been hit by a ground-to-air missile over Russia’s Chechnya region before crossing the Caspian Sea and crashing near Aqtau, Kazakhstan, killing 38 of the 67 passengers and crew.
The cockpit recorder has been recovered intact as authorities stepped up their investigation following the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet in Kazakhstan that killed at least 38 of the 67 people aboard on December 25.
One person was killed and 11 were wounded by a ballistic missile strike on an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Kryviy Rih, local officials said on December 24 as clashes were reported along much of the front line in eastern Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed revenge over Kyiv's attack a day earlier on high-rise buildings in Kazan, the capital of Russia's oil-rich republic of Tatarstan, as Russia launched a massive drone attack at Ukraine on December 22.
Ukraine struck high-rise buildings in Kazan, the capital of Russia's oil-rich republic of Tatarstan, in the latest display of its growing drone capabilities.
Ukraine launched a deadly missile attack on the Russian region of Kursk on December 20, just hours after Russia carried out a massive air assault on Kyiv during rush hour that killed one person and damaged a historic cathedral and other buildings in the capital, including six embassies.
Russia could soon capture the key southern Donetsk logistics hub of Pokrovsk, which would cap a year of material territorial gains in Ukraine.
In a marathon Q&A session, Russian President Vladimir Putin dangled the prospect of concessions on Ukraine before audiences in Kyiv, Washington, and the West. But he attached numerous caveats to the idea of compromise.
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