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People living in Bakhmut, perhaps the most bitterly contested town in Ukraine, travel 12 kilometers west to Chasiv Yar to stock up on necessities or draw their pensions.
With temperatures plummeting to -20 degrees Celsius in January, Kyrgyzstan's Naryn region is ideal for winter sports. Despite being scarcely populated and lacking investment, the region offers winter activities like ice fishing, skating, and skiing thanks to a few family businesses.
Police and security officers have held a series of "anti-terrorist" raids in Uzbekistan's volatile Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, where unprecedented anti-government protests last year left 21 people dead.
A teenager ran into a burning kindergarten to save children after a helicopter crashed into it on January 18. The authorities said 14 people were killed, including one child, along with the Ukrainian interior minister and other officials flying in the helicopter. Many children were injured.
Eyewitnesses have spoken of their horror as a helicopter crashed into a Ukrainian kindergarten on the morning of January 18. According to the latest figures 14 people were killed, including a child, as well as Ukraine's interior minister and other senior officials who were in the helicopter.
The Ukrainian military continues its counteroffensive near the area of Kreminna, a strategic logistics hub in Ukraine's Luhansk region. Russian forces are said to be dug in deep in the area. Western-supplied weapons, including self-propelled howitzers, are helping Ukrainian troops in their efforts.
Current Time correspondent Andriy Kuzakov spent a day with a Ukrainian air reconnaissance unit on the front line between Bakhmut and Soledar, where brutal fighting continues to rage. Ukrainian military officials reported that Russian forces launched more than 70 attacks on January 16 near Bakhmut.
Boxing trainer Mykhaylo Korenovskiy was a victim of a Russian missile strike on a nine-story apartment building that houses around 1,700 people on January 14 that killed at least 40 people, with 30 others still unaccounted for.
With temperatures falling as low as -30 degrees Celsius in Astana, stray cats and dogs struggle to survive on the streets of the Kazakh capital. Shelters are full and animal-welfare groups are asking locals to provide food and warmth for strays who risk freezing to death.
Despite a few Ukrainian holdouts, Russia appears to have taken control of the eastern town of Soledar -- but at what cost?
Ukraine has denied claims by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Vagner mercenary group, that Russian forces have captured all of Soledar, one of the hottest points in the war. The town sits on a vast network of salt-mine tunnels that cover an estimated 200 kilometers.
Utility crews are working to restore power to towns and villages in Ukraine's liberated Kharkiv region. Workers must carefully avoid minefields to hook up electrical cables. Meanwhile, volunteers are bringing drinking water, fuel, and food to villages cut off by damaged roads and bridges.
The chief of Russia's Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, has ordered a probe launched against self-exiled actor Artur Smolyaninov over a recent interview he gave about Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Moscow's Helsinki Group, founded in 1976 by Soviet dissident scientists and activists, is fighting for survival. A Moscow court is set to rule in January on liquidating the organization. It's the same court that closed down the Memorial human rights group last year.
Prosecutors in Ukraine have announced that the individual suspected of orchestrating the removal of a Banksy mural in a town heavily damaged in Russian bombing could face 12 years in prison if found guilty.
Ukraine has claimed responsibility for a missile attack on a temporary military barracks in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region after the Kremlin, in a rare battlefield admission, acknowledged that scores of its soldiers had been killed at a site in the city of Makiyivka.
As fighting rages in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Russian forces near the city of Bakhmut are said to be exhausted. Ukrainian troops are relying upon their air reconnaissance operations. A drone unit known as The Wings of Madyar is providing real-time information to Ukrainian artillery batteries.
Since the first day of the Russian invasion, Ukrainians have been uploading videos online about how they are experiencing war, devastation, and blackouts. Many use humor to help lighten spirits amid the tensions of war.
Despite constant shelling by Russian forces, a New Year's tree was put up in Bakhmut, a hotly contested city in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Most of Bakhmut's prewar popular of 70,000 have fled. Volunteers hope the New Year's tree will be a sign of hope for those who remain.
A statue of 18th-century Russian Empress Catherine the Great was dismantled in the Ukrainian city of Odesa on the night of December 28-29 as Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine.
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