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Is the war entering a new phase? They release them by cutting off their fins and dropping them in the sea. Their bodies, with net marks on their skin, are often washed ashore. It failed - but the ongoing hostilities have been killing "hundreds times more" bottlenose and short-beaked dolphins and harbour porpoises, according to Ivan Rusev, head researcher at the Tuzly Lagoons national park in southern Ukraine. In 2022 alone, some 50,000 dolphins died this way, and by 2026, the number exceeded 120,000, or one in four cetaceans in the Black Sea, Rusev told Al Jazeera.

Is the war entering a new phase? Ukraine's military says Russian casualties reached 49,040 in October - a new monthly record. The General Staff's estimate of dead and incapacitated Russian troops, as of October 28, comes close to fulfilling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's goal set in January of at least 50,000 enemy casualties a month by the end of 2026. The previous monthly high of 46,230 was set in September, with both records marking a sharp increase in reported Russian dead and wounded since the summer. Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces commander Robert Brovdi called it a "massive industrial slaughter".

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'The city is alive': A brief peace in Kherson, but residents fear what comes next The Ukrainian city of Kherson has known its first two days of quiet after many years, as a US-brokered temporary ceasefire has allowed residents rare moments of respite from the constant Russian aerial attacks that plague the front line region. Videos posted on social media showed people strolling down streets covered in anti-drone nets and gathering in the city's squares - ordinary activities that usually mean keeping one eye on the sky and one ear out for incoming drones. Ever since the ceasefire was announced, there's been total silence, said Olga, 42, speaking by phone from Kherson. We are all, of course, overjoyed. I don't even know what to call it, she added, her smile coming through in her voice.

Is the war entering a new phase? A Russian drone strike killed at least 14 people at Dnipro's main railway station in central Ukraine on Thursday morning, as passengers waited to board a train. Why Michigan could decide the future of Trump's presidency

'Horrific' Russian drone strike kills 14 at Ukraine train station Emergency employees carry a person injured at a railway station in Dnipro, Ukraine, following a Russian drone strike on Thursday. Kyiv - A Russian drone slammed into a busy platform at a railway station in Ukraine's Dnipro on Thursday killing at least 14 people in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called a "horrific" attack that demands a response from Kyiv's allies. The strike came as Ukraine and Russia strive to uphold a fragile local ceasefire in the ravaged city of Oleshky -- under Russian occupation since 2022 and where residents have faced months of food, water and medicine shortages. The truce was holding into its third day, both countries said, with the Ukrainian human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets announcing that he had "set out with the Ukrainian delegation towards Oleshky" through Belarus and Russia. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

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