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When costly missiles take out cheap drones, the real winner over time may be the country that spends less.

A Ukrainian attack with U.S.-made rockets may have left hundreds of casualties, and pro-war Russians accused their military commanders of repeating fatal errors.

Explosions were heard in the capital early Monday after it once again was the target of exploding drones. In his first address of 2023, President Volodymyr Zelensky struck a defiant tone.

The year ended much the same way it had gone for months, with air raid sirens, explosions and families rushing to find shelter.

Russian missiles hit Ukraine on Thursday in the biggest wave of strikes in weeks, damaging power stations and other critical infrastructure during freezing winter weather.

Combat raged around the city of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, as Ukrainian forces edged closer to reclaiming that small but strategically important city, while the Russians battled to defend some of their hardest-fought gains of the war.

A partisan cell in Kherson spied on, undermined and even hunted down Russian soldiers. Now that Vladimir V. Putin’s forces are gone, people feel free to talk — and to brag a little.

President Vladimir Putin insisted Sunday that he was willing to negotiate over his invasion of Ukraine, an oft-repeated line that U.S. and Ukrainian officials have dismissed as lip service, as air-raid sirens sent Ukrainians already on edge from months of war and bitter cold to seek shelter on Christmas Day.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine had urged vigilance after the military noted the presence of Russian ships carrying cruise missiles in the Black Sea.

Ukrainians, many left in the dark and cold by Russian airstrikes, drew solace from President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to Congress.