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Here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's vast team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.

Former Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Ivan Plachkov discusses how Kyiv is coping after massive Russian missile strikes targeted the country’s civilian heating infrastructure just at the approach of winter.

Like much of Iran, residents of the country's southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province took part in recent anti-government and anti-hijab protests. But the vast and impoverished region, populated largely by minority Baluchis, has taken the brunt of the violent government response.

In Lyman, a strategic railway hub recaptured by Ukrainian forces in a major counteroffensive in the east, soldiers describe the encirclement and retreat of Russian troops -- and talk about what may come next as Moscow mobilizes new recruits amid battlefield setbacks.

On September 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin presided over a ceremony to claim large swathes of Ukrainian territory as permanent and nonnegotiable parts of Russia. That move has recast the Ukraine war as a zero-sum competition careening toward some alarming possible outcomes.