Bakhmut 'holding out against all odds,' Zelenskyy says; Russia backs ban on maps disputing territory
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A Ukrainian soldier traveling in a truck as the Russia-Ukraine war continues on the Bakhmut front line in Donetsk, Ukraine on Jan. 8, 2023.In other news, Russia's government has extended support to a legislative amendment that would classify maps that dispute the country's official "territorial integrity" as punishable extremist materials, the state-owned Tass news agency reported Sunday.
Russia's sweepingly ambiguous anti-extremism legislation — it applies to religious organizations, journalists and their materials, as well as the activity of businesses, among others - has allowed the Kremlin to tighten its grip on opponents. Russia and Japan have not formally ended World War Two hostilities because of their standoff over a group of islands just off Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido. The Soviet Union seized those islands - known in Russia as the Kurils and in Japan as the Northern Territories - at the end of the war.
"FELON is Russia's most advanced fifth-generation supersonic combat jet, employing stealth technologies and highly advanced avionics," the ministry added. "This is symptomatic of Russia's continued risk-averse approach to employing its air force in the war."Ukrainian soldiers near a stele with a Ukrainian flag and a handwritten inscription that reads: "Bakhmut is Ukraine" on Jan. 4, 2023, in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
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