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A 12-year-old boy has been successfully returned to Ukraine after spending 18 months in occupied territory and 4 months in Russia, Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets announced on Telegram on Dec. 22.

Three Russian soldiers, believed to have committed war crimes against civilians in the occupied territories of Kharkiv Oblast, have been identified by Ukraine’s SBU security service and the National Police, the SBU reported on Telegram on Dec. 22.

An ammunition and equipment depot that the Russian military had placed on the grounds of the former Mariupol Refrigeration Plant, was hit in Russian-occupied Mariupol on Dec. 20, the advisor to the mayor of the port city, Petro Andriushchenko, reported on Telegram.

Four explosions were heard in the occupied city of Kerch, the Crimean Wind Telegram channel reported on Dec. 21.

Russia attacked the oblast 82 times, using artillery, mortars, drones, aircraft, tanks, and multiple-launch rocket systems.

Russian occupation authorities in Mariupol have received a large shipment of propaganda-filled textbooks to indoctrinate Ukrainian children, the Mariupol City Council reported on Dec. 18.

Russian attacks against the Sumy and Kherson oblasts on Dec. 19 injured six residents, including three children, local officials reported.

Russia's Central Election Committee sparked controversy by announcing plans to hold "presidential elections" in Ukrainian territories currently under Russian occupation.

The West does not fully understand the threat of nuclear terrorism from Russia — the main danger is not the use of nuclear weapons, but nuclear terrorism associated with the seizure of nuclear power plants such as Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhya, said world-renowned Ukrainian historian and director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Serhii Plokhy, in an interview with NV.

Standing at an intersection just outside Russian-occupied Donetsk in the town of Marinka two years ago felt bittersweet. It’s been almost a decade since I fled Donetsk after living under Russian occupation for two months. Going back before liberation would be suicide following the years I’ve spent reporting on Russian atrocities in the occupied territories.