The battle of Irpin narrowly saved Ukraine. Here's how it went down.

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Ukraine blew a dam and bridges across the Irpin River to hinder Russia's advance in the war's earliest days.
Ukraine blew a dam and bridges across the Irpin River to hinder Russia's advance in the war's earliest days.

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Ukraine's getting powerful long-range glide bombs from the US that will give its F-16s a new punch

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A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 fighter jet. The US is providing Ukraine with new Joint Standoff Weapons, adding another arrow in the jet's quiver.

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Putin is intensifying nuclear threats as the West wavers over Ukraine's use of long-range weapons

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Russian President Vladimir Putin at a security council meeting in Moscow in September 2024.

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Ukraine is fielding machine-gun turrets remotely controlled by the Steam Deck video game system made for playing Halo

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Ukraine is using Steam Deck, a popular video game platform, for controlling remote guns.

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Satellite images show damage at Russian base that stored glide bombs after Ukrainian long-range strike

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Glide bombs released by a Russian warplane on August 7.
Glide bombs released by a Russian warplane.

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Ukraine's Kursk offensive shows it could win the war if the West ended its weapon restrictions, European official says

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A local volunteer looks at a building damaged by Ukrainian strikes in Kursk on August 16, 2024, following Ukraine's offensive into Russia's western Kursk region.

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Ukraine started this year on the brink of disaster. A lot has changed since.

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A destroyed border checkpoint with the sign "Ukraine" and "Russia" on August 16, 2024 in Sudzha, Russia.

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The plot to topple Putin

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A group of people stand between two stone columns.
Ever since the invasion of Ukraine, a loose and sometimes fractious cohort of Russian exiles — many of them based in Warsaw — has come to believe that Russia can be liberated only through violence and sabotage.

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This is the conflict-ridden, tension-filled world that the next US president may have to face

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Regardless of who wins the 2024 election, Trump or Harris will both likely face a variety of foreign policy challenges.

US Navy photo by Lt. Aaron B. Hicks

Ukrainian forces in Kursk are readying for a long fight and may plan to 'bleed' the Russians just like in Ukraine, expert says

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Medics provide assistance in a vehicle in Russia's Kursk region in August 2024.

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