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The Latest Breaking News on War in Ukraine

Bill Plaschke: An American is coming home. So why are so many Americans upset Brittney Griner is free?

LOS ANGELES — An American who has been wrongfully detained for 10 months in brutal Russian prisons is coming home.

Los Angeles Times

Why getting Whelan freed from Russia is proving harder than Griner

WASHINGTON — For the second time this year, the family of Michigan's Paul Whelan was left "devastated" that Russia agreed to swap an American prisoner for the return of a Russian inmate, and that, again, that American wasn't Paul.

Tribune News Service

U.S. to send Ukraine anti-drone, air defense aid worth $275 million

(This Dec. 8 story has been refiled to remove an extraneous paragraph)

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U.S. citizen Sarah Krivanek deported from Russia

Sarah Krivanek, a U.S. citizen ordered deported by a Russian court over a domestic dispute, has left Russia, Krivanek said while aboard a plane about to leave Moscow's airport late on Thursday.

Reuters

Ukraine recap: prepare for a 'long war' says Putin – but most Russians beg to disagree

If nuclear weapons are used in Ukraine, it won’t be Russia that starts it, says Russian president Vladimir Putin – ostensibly seeking to reassure the world while also delivering an arch reminder that he does, after all, have the power to swing the world’s largest nuclear arsenal into action if…

The Conversation

Russians build defences inside their OWN borders as Vladimir Putin’s war fails

The protective line, including concrete 'tank trap' concrete pyramids, spans Belgorod and Kursk regions, but the plan has been savaged by some Russian military analysts

Daily Mirror

Bomb shelters readied in Moscow as Russians fear 'major gaps' in air defences

A military expert from Russia has made a rare admission that Ukraine has discovered areas which could leave the city unprepared for any air attack sparking 'deep alarm' among the Kremlin’s war supporters

Daily Mirror

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Ukrainians brave return to former frontline village after Russian retreat

When Russian forces advanced in the middle of last winter, the villagers of Posad-Pokrovske began to flee, joining compatriots from across the southern Ukrainian province of Kherson in a mass westward exodus.

Reuters

Pope weeps in Rome as he prays for peace in Ukraine

Pope Francis has wept in the center of Rome as he prayed for peace in Ukraine

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin guzzles champagne as he blames Ukraine for Russian's military strikes

Vladimir Putin appears to confess to war crimes and blame Ukraine for strikes while guzzling champagne at a reception at the Kremlin in Moscow

Daily Mirror

France says EU to add new Iran sanctions on human rights, drone supplies

The European Union is set to agree new sanctions targeting Iran over human rights abuses in its crackdown on protesters in the country and the supply of drones to Russia, France's foreign ministry spokesperson said on Thursday.

Reuters

Ukraine war: what the Northern Ireland peace process can tell us about ending this conflict

Most armed conflicts end not with a total victory but with messy compromises. This is especially the case when the objectives on either side are incompatible and both are escalating their efforts to secure a victory which is unachievable.

The Conversation

Four 'fronts' in the Ukraine-Russia war to look out for as winter bites

Russia had expected to be victorious long before now. Its initial plan envisaged ground assaults across Ukraine in the first ten days and a rapid capitulation thereafter. But Kyiv did not fall – and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, refused to leave the capital, saying, “I need ammunition, not a ride,”…

The Conversation

Strikes in Russia leave Ukraine allies uneasy at Putin reply

While this week’s drone attacks on Russian airfields that the Kremlin blamed on Ukraine were of largely symbolic value, Kyiv’s apparent readiness to take the war to Vladimir Putin may be constrained by nervousness among its allies over his potential reaction.

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The Independent UK

Putin vows to persist with strikes in Ukraine, ignoring West

The Kremlin says it’s up to Ukraine’s president to end the conflict in the country, suggesting terms that Kyiv has repeatedly rejected

Evening Standard

US basketball star Brittney Griner freed from Russia in prisoner swap involving arms dealer Viktor Bout

The high-level prisoner swap, at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine, was announced by US President Joe Biden on Thursday

ABC News

Brittney Griner released in US-Russia prisoner swap for arms dealer Viktor Bout

Russia has freed WNBA star Brittney Griner in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the US releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, American officials say.

Reuters

Kremlin appears to scale back its ambitions in Ukraine

Russia said on Thursday that it was still set on securing at least the bulk of the parts of east and south Ukraine that it has claimed as its own, but appeared to give up on seizing other areas in the west and northeast that Ukraine has recaptured.

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The Independent UK

2022 was year the horror of war returned to Europe

This was the year war returned to Europe, and few facets of life were left untouched

The Conversation

Ukraine war: why the Kinburn spit is of vital military significance and opens up the recapture of Crimea

The Kinburn spit, a tiny headland at the mouth of the Dniepro river, has been described as having “enormous strategic importance” in the next phase of the Ukraine war. Ukraine has indicated its intention to liberate it and an operation seems to be under way to do so.

Evening Standard

Putin is losing the ground war, but Europe must dig in for the economic battle

There is more than one front in Europe’s almost 10- month-long war. The first is in the mud, where the worst trenches and dugouts in Eastern Ukraine are starting to bear more than a passing resemblance to scenes from the First World War. The second can be seen from space:…

Reuters

Russia says goal of Zaporizhzhia nuclear safety zone is to 'stop Ukraine shelling'

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that the main goal of a proposed safety zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was to "stop Ukraine shelling" the facility, while Kyiv said Moscow was storing advanced weapons on the site.

Reuters

Ukraine detains couple suspected of spying for Russia in Odesa

The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has detained a married couple suspected of spying for Russia in the Black Sea city of Odesa, one of Ukraine's largest ports.

Al Jazeera

Russia and Ukraine enter grim winter campaign as war losses mount

With neither side ready for talks, there are increasing suggestions the war will go on for a long time.

Reuters

Kremlin: Russia plans to 'liberate' parts of Ukraine that Moscow annexed

(This story has been refiled to fix typo in 'plans' in the headline)

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