How Ukraine's 'lifeline' railway runs even as Russia bombs it, according to a man fighting to keep the trains on time

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Ukrainian soldier Vasyl Khomko, 42, carries flowers as he waits for his wife and daughter at the train station in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022.
Ukrainian soldier Vasyl Khomko, 42, carries flowers as he waits for his wife and daughter at the train station in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022.

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The Russia-Ukraine war will continue into 2024 and any definitive outcome has risks, a veteran investment chief and former Moscow-based journalist says

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DoJ moves to seize 6 luxury properties in New York, the Hamptons, and Florida worth $75 million from sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg

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Image of Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg (front) and Park Avenue, where he owns a property.
Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg owns a property on Park Avenue in New York, per the DoJ.

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How a 34-year-old Ukrainian founder created scrappy business opportunities amid the chaos of war

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Alina Kachorovska
Alina Kachorovska is the founder and CEO of her eponymous footwear brand.

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How US-supplied shells crammed with anti-tank mines helped defeat a brigade of Russian marines in the battle for Vuhledar

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This photograph taken on September 11, 2022, shows a Ukranian soldier standing atop an abandoned Russian tank near a village on the outskirts of Izyum, Kharkiv Region, eastern Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Zelenskyy shows the simple bedroom at his office that he has called home since Russia invaded Ukraine

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 15, 2023.

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Russian diplomats received an anniversary wake-up call of wailing air raid sirens and the sound of falling bombs

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Hamburg: Participants of a demonstration against the war in Ukraine hold a poster with the inscription
Hamburg: Participants of a demonstration against the war in Ukraine hold a poster with the inscription "24.02.22. 365 days of Russian terror in Ukraine".

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Russians hung out with US Army soldiers at a weapons expo and played with the missiles killing Putin's tanks in Ukraine

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Soldiers with the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team load a Javelin missile onto the Common Remotely Operated Weapons System on a Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle before a live-fire training exercise on April 28, 2022 in Fort Carson, Colorado.
Soldiers with the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team load a Javelin missile onto the Common Remotely Operated Weapons System on a Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle before a live-fire training exercise on April 28, 202

Timelapse map shows how close Russia came to taking Kyiv and how Ukraine reclaimed its land over a year of war

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A Ukrainian soldier checks the wreckage of a burnt Russian tank outside of the village of Mala Rogan, east of Kharkiv, on April 1, 2022, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A Ukrainian soldier checks the wreckage of a burnt Russian tank outside of the village of Mala Rogan, east of Kharkiv, on April 1, 2022, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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The West should confiscate Russia's currency reserves to help Ukraine while easing risk to US dollar's dominance, says anti-Putin hedge fund manager

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Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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