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Russian troops captured in the Ukraine Donbas region. More of those pesky Russian tourists.

 

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Re-wilding underway in Ukrainian Danube Delta as multiple obsolete dams removed.

 

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The National Opera seashell in Kyiv.

 

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The Dovbusha Rocks in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Excellent for honing your climbing skills.

 

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According to Ukraine military intelligence, the "Mayor" of occupied Horlivka, Eduard Matiukh, was their undercover operative and has now returned
to government-controlled territory. The Russian Orcs are hopping mad lol.

 

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Yevgeniya Zakrevskaya, lawyer for the families of the Heavenly Hundred that were killed during Maidan, is on a hunger strike until the Zelenskyy government resumes an investigation into the murders.
The government allowed the term of the Maidan investigators to expire. This is the sixth day of her hunger strike and now seven more people have joined her hunger protest.

 

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Ukraine filmmaker Oleg Sentsov accepts the Sakharov Prize at the European Union Parliament in Brussels. Sentsov suggested that Ukraine should restore her nuclear arsenal. I agree.

 

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Sudak, occupied Crimea.

 

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Ukraine president Zelenskyy is welcomed to Estonia by president Kersti Kaljulaid.

 

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Honoring the latest slain soldiers at the Ukraine Defense Ministry.

 

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22 year old beauty queen Maria Vasilevich who has been linked romantically to the long-time dictator of Belarus has become the country’s youngest MP after
parliamentary elections that critics said were rigged. Ms Vasilevich was born in 1997. Alexander Lukashenka (65) was first elected president of Belarus in 1994.
Lukashenka also has an estranged wife, Galina.

 

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A method used in Ukraine to warm up food or clothing articles in the winter. If you don't close the doors, cats will also warm up inside.

 

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The Swallows Nest castle in Crimea on the Black Sea. Russia has transplanted 500,000 Russians into Crimea. It is illegal (The Geneva Conventions on War) for an occupying power to change
the demographics of an occupied territory.

 

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A shy peck on his girlfriend's cheek.

 

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In the city of Stryi in western Ukraine, the citizens welcome home the soldiers of the Terebovlya Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment "West" who returned from the eastern front after a six month rotation.

 

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Ukraine security services raided the Kyiv home of President Zelenskyy critic, combat medic Olena Bilenka. Last month in the eastern Ukraine disengagement town
of Zolote, she condemned the president's accommodating stance on disengagement, accusing him of trying to appease and surrender to the aggressor. She also said he
could get hurt this close to the contact line. During the home raid, her service weapon, a phone and a notebook were seized. Although I think she did threaten
harm to Zelenskyy in a backhanded manner, I think this raid is an unnecessary stunt by the government. Truth be told, I don't fully trust Zelenskyy either.

 

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The French Navy Corvette Commandant Birot (F-796) sailed into Odesa harbor. Quite frankly, the French should be embarrassed. This vessel looks like it was
just docked somewhere rusting-out for the past five years. Nevertheless, Ukraine appreciates the NATO naval support

 

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US military personnel celebrate Thanksgiving in Yavroriv, Ukraine.

 

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An activist group has been started to preserve "Soviet Modernism" architecture in Ukraine. Above - seaside hotel in Odesa.

 

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Civilian attorney Nikolay Polozov poses with 21 of the 24 Ukrainian sailors who were abducted by Russia on the high seas on 25 November 2018.
Mr. Polozov was a member of the Ukraine legal team representing the sailors at the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) at the Hague.

 

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Protest banner warning president Zelenskyy about capitulation to Russia in the city of Zaporizhzhia.

 

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In the Carpathians.

 

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The welcome sign of the town of Horodnia in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. This area is a tri-point meeting of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus.
Horodnia is the hometown of the current Prime Minister of Ukraine, Oleksiy Honcharuk.

 

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The Presidential Administration Building at 2 Khreshchatyk Street in Kyiv.

 

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26y.o. Oleksiy Kapustian was KIA by sniper bullet near Maryinka, Donetsk Oblast on November 29.
Born in 1993 in Krynychky, Rivne Oblast. Volunteered in 2014, serving in the 10th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade.