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In his first visit to Ukraine since the war started, French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Wednesday pledged that France would increase aid to Kyiv, including 200 million euros to buy weapons.
In Kyiv, officials warned that the capital would see emergency power outages all winter, despite workers racing to repair infrastructure damaged by shelling.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
‘Nothing left to destroy’: Russia is fighting for land already in ruins: In Donbas region, some cities and towns are caught in a never-ending cycle of conquest and liberation. Some have been traded back and forth between Ukraine and Russia several times since 2014, write Jeff Stein and Ievgeniia Sivorka.
In Lyman and Yampil, entire neighborhoods have already been leveled, with the tops of apartment buildings blown off by shells, massive craters left next to children’s playgrounds, and just a few dozen elderly people left and scarred from ceaseless shelling.