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Videodebtdebt...Associated PressRussia launched two waves of strikes on Saturday in towns far from Ukraine's front lines, shocking residents after two

Russian forces have targeted Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and other cities with missile and drone attacks off-and-on for months, devastating the power grid and forcing rolling blackouts.

Two European countries are considering sending tanks to Ukraine, a demand that it has made for months. Providing the weaponry to Ukraine was once considered off limits by Europe and the U.S.

In a statement announcing the general’s new appointment, Russia’s defense ministry hinted at a renewed campaign in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said troops fighting in the Donbas will soon be bolstered by aid and weapons from Ukraine’s allies.

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KYIV, Ukraine -- An uneasy quiet settled over Kyiv on Friday despite air-raid sirens that blared there and across Ukraine shortly after a Russian cease-fire declaration for Orthodox Christmas went into effect. Ukrainian and Western officials have scorned the truce as a ploy.

Kyiv says its forces have killed or wounded more than 1,000 Russian soldiers in a series of pinpoint attacks. Russia has confirmed only one of three waves of strikes.

Ukraine shot down all of the exploding drones that Russia had fired in the new year, a Ukrainian air force spokesperson said Tuesday, in a measure of the countrys growing ability to resist Moscows effort to incapacitate its energy infrastructure.