The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with a group of officers, during a recent meeting in Kyiv - all looking at a cat.

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British media reports that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has decided to send (12) Challenger II main battle tanks to Ukraine. Four are to be sent practically immediately, with another eight sent later on.

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Ambushed while protecting evacuees: US volunteer Cooper Andrews in Bakhmut: 26 years old. Previously served in the US Marine Corps - „He was a member of the Foreign Legion and later the Resistance Committee. Killed by Russian troops while protecting evacuees,“ said journalist Jake Hanrahan.

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Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo) resting on the desert with the Amour mountain range in the distance, French Algeria. (Small groups of those lions lived in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco to the mid-1960s) Photograph c. 1893. [800 x 546]

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Ukrainian Army soldier after he was captured by Russian forces on the Bakhmut Front, Donetsk Oblast - he was killed by his captors seconds after saying (Слава Украіні or Glory to Ukraine), March 2023. [551 x 835]

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R video game developer Volodymyr Ezhov - involved in the creation of Alexander (RTS/RPG from 2004), Cossacks 2 (RTS, 2005), Heroes of Annihilated Empires and STALKER: Clear Sky (2008) - has been killed in Ukraine Reportedly in Bakhmut, He was part of Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces.

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R video game developer Volodymyr Ezhov - involved in the creation of Alexander (RTS/RPG from 2004), Cossacks 2, Heroes of Annihilated Empires and STALKER: Clear Sky - has been killed in Ukraine - Reportedly in Bakhmut. He was part of Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces. [828 x 1008]

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Ukrainian 102-year-old Babushka, Liubov Yarosh, (who lived through The Holodomor of 1932 - 1933), here with a Ukrainian Army sniper in Khodorkiv, eastern Ukraine, February 2023. [569 x 720]

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Soldiers of the (RLI) Rhodesian Light Infantry with their FN FAL battle rifles - in the bushland of Rhodesia during the bush war against the Zimbabwean revolutionary communist forces of Robert Mugabe, c. 1975 - 1979. [828 x 811]

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Skyler James Greggs, a (23-year-old) from Washington state, U.S.A., he joined the International Legion of the Ukrainian Army. He was killed on the Eastern Front: he was wounded in June but after recovering said then that “the job isn’t finished.”

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Russian Spetsnaz soldier, in the sights of a Ukrainian Army soldier, seconds before firing his AK - when the Russians attempted to storm Ukrainian trenches in the Donetsk oblast, on February 17th, 2023. [591 x 1280]

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Ukrainian Viacheslav Zaitsev, member of the Zaporizhzhia City Council: fought in the Second Battle for the Donetsk airport (Sep 28th, 2014 - Jan 21st, 2015) and the Debaltseve Encirclement (Jan 14 - Feb 20, 2015. He rejoined the Ukrainian Army on February 24th, 2022: died in a battle on October 6th.

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Ukraine considers expelling all Russian citizens who illegally moved to Crimea after 2014: after it’s deoccupied. „Decision is simple and doesn’t contradict law: people who came illegally must leave by voluntary departure or forced expulsion” - Tamila Tasheva, Presidential Rep of Ukraine in Crimea.

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Unfinished Bundesmarine Braunschweig-class corvette, Lubeck (F269), the tenth ship of her class being towed by tugboats through the Kiel Canal. [2048 x 1536]

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We are closer than you can imagine! – Ukrainians refer that to the Russian occupiers. The red and black flag patch is that of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - it was used by Ukrainian nationalist organizations and parties, including UNA-UNSO, Right Sector, and Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.

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Ukrainian woman takes a selfie with a Russian cluster munition (among others in the backyard) at her family’s home in the Kharkiv Oblast in northeast Ukraine, November 2022. [1440 x 1440]

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Wagner PMC leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin as he leaves in an SUV in the city of Rostov, southern Russia - and heads for the airport, and preparing for his exile in Belarus. After the end of the rebellion.

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