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With Russia's war still raging, countless Ukrainian families are facing the pain of spending this festive period apart. 

Russian pilots into participating in a fake calendar project. This initiative aimed to reveal the identities of the pilots involved in a deadly airstrike on a theatre in Mariupol, where civilians sought shelter. Members of the volunteer-based international intelligence community, InformNapalm, successfully persuaded multiple wives to pose in front of a Russian fighter jet, wearing their husbands’ medals.

Ukraine since the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have lost their lives. The exact number of casualties is impossible to establish, with both sides giving little information about their losses, to avoid undermining morale among the troops and wider public. The UN's human rights office said in mid-January it had confirmed the deaths of 10,382 civilians in Ukraine and a further 19,659 injured since Russia's invasion but that the real number was likely higher.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian and Ukrainian military officials both reported downing enemy aircraft on Sunday in different areas of the 1,000-km-long (621-mile) front of their 22-month-old war.

Read more of our recent coverage of the Ukraine war As he headed to NATO’s gathering in Vilnius, a tetchy Volodymyr Zelensky called it “unprecedented and absurd" that Ukraine was apparently not being given a clear promise of speedy membership of the alliance. If that was meant as a last-ditch attempt to twist arms, it failed. The final communiqué, as he feared, refers to a need for conditions to be met and for allies to agree, even as it avoids dates and timelines.

Anne Frank wrote her World War II diary while hiding with her family from the brutal Nazi occupation is hosting an exhibition about the Ukraine war with grim echoes of her plight more than three quarters of a century later. The exhibition that opened at Amsterdam City Hall on Thursday offers a vision of the war in Ukraine as experienced by children caught in the devastating conflict. «This exhibition is about the pain through the children's eyes,» Khrystyna Khranovska, who developed the idea, said at the opening. «It strikes into the very heart of every adult to be aware of the suffering and grief that the Russian war has brought our children,» she added. "War Diaries," includes writings like those that Anne Frank penned in the hidden annex behind an Amsterdam canal-side house, but also modern ways Ukrainian children have recorded and processed the traumatic experience of life during wartime, including photos and video. Among them is the artwork of Mykola Kostenko, now 15, who spent 21 days under siege in the port city of Mariupol. The relentless attack on the southern port city became a symbol of Russian President Vladimir Putin's drive to crush Ukraine soon after Russia invaded its neighbor in February last year, but also of resistance and resilience of its 430,000 population.

(Reuters) — The foreign ministers of Russia and Turkey spoke by telephone on Sunday, a day after Ankara angered Moscow by sending five Ukrainian commanders home with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in what Russia called a violation of a prisoner exchange agreement.

President Volodymyr Zelensky brought home from Turkey on Saturday five former commanders of Ukraine's garrison in Mariupol, a highly symbolic achievement that Russia said violated a prisoner exchange deal engineered last year. Russia immediately denounced the release. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Ankara had promised under the exchange agreement to keep the men in Turkey and complained Moscow had not been informed.

Russia's war in Ukraine as the fighting passed the 500-day mark with no end to the conflict in sight. More than 9,000 civilians, including 500 children, have been killed since Russia's February 24, 2022 invasion, the UN's Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) said in a statement on Friday, though UN representatives have previously said the real count is likely to be much higher.

Russian forces are continuing to gather in eastern Ukraine to bolster defences against ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensives near the Kharkiv-Luhansk Oblast region.

When Kateryna Polishchuk began her studies to become an opera singer, she could have never imagined that one day she would be performing surgery without anaesthesia on a wounded soldier while hiding away in a bombed-out steel plant.

Russian forces used torture and kept a famous Mariupol medic in 'inhumane' conditions, the survivor of the key port city's siege has told Euronews.

Ukrainian authorities say they've found a mass burial site near Izium, a city in the country's northeast that was recently occupied by Russian forces and retaken by Ukraine as part of a lightning-fast counteroffensive.  

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that any talks with Russia will be impossible if a trial of captured Ukrainian soldiers goes ahead.

Five Europeans captured in eastern Ukraine went on trial on Monday in a court run by Kremlin-backed separatists, accused of fighting with the Ukrainian army as mercenaries. 

Russia’s Supreme Court declared Ukraine’s Azov Regiment a terrorist organisation, a designation that could lead to terror charges against some of the captured fighters who made their last stand inside Mariupol's shattered steel plant.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Friday's shelling of a prisoner of war camp that left more than 50 people dead a "deliberate Russian war crime." 

Russia and Ukraine accused one another on Friday of bombing a prison in separatist-held eastern Ukraine, which killed scores of Ukrainian prisoners of war.  

Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine claim that at least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war captured during the fighting for Mariupol have been killed by Ukrainian shelling.

Russia is preparing for the next stage of its offensive in Ukraine, a Ukrainian military official said, after the Kremlin said its forces would step up its attacks in "all operational areas".

Russian missiles struck a city in central Ukraine on Thursday, killing more than 20 people and wounding about 90 more, Ukrainian authorities said. Nearly 40 others were reported missing.