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Could Ukraine hold a presidential election right now? Will Europe use frozen Russian assets to fund war? How can Ukraine rebuild China ties? 'Ukraine is running out of men, money and time' A Ukrainian drone attack killed two workers from a state-owned pharmacy as they were transporting medicines to Polohy in a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine's Zaporizhia region, Russia's state news agency TASS reports. A Ukrainian drone strike injured three people in Russia's front-line Belgorod region, the regional task force reported, according to TASS.

Ukraine missile attacks by Russia prompt emergency Security Council session as U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations Tammy Bruce condemns strikes on civilian infrastructure.

Could Ukraine hold a presidential election right now? Will Europe use frozen Russian assets to fund war? How can Ukraine rebuild China ties? 'Ukraine is running out of men, money and time' Ukrainian drone attack kills one in Russia's Voronezh, local officials say A Ukrainian drone attack has killed one person and wounded three in the Russian city of Voronezh, according to local officials. Governor Alexander Gusev said in a social media post on Sunday that a young woman died overnight in a hospital intensive care unit after debris from a drone fell on a house during the attack.

Could Ukraine hold a presidential election right now? Will Europe use frozen Russian assets to fund war? How can Ukraine rebuild China ties? 'Ukraine is running out of men, money and time' Russian forces began a "massive attack" on Ukraine on Monday night, killing three people and targeting 13 regions with 650 drones and 30 missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X. Those killed in the overnight attack included a four-year-old girl in the central Zhytomyr region, Governor Vitalii Bunechko said on Telegram.

Three killed after Russia launches'massive' attack across Ukraine Russia carried out a massive overnight attack on several Ukrainian cities, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, a day after he warned of strikes over the Christmas period. At least three people were killed, according to Ukrainian officials, including a four-year-old child, while energy infrastructure was also targeted, leaving several regions without power. Russia launched 635 drones and 38 missiles, Ukraine's air force said, adding that 621 of them were downed. Zelensky said people simply want to be with their families, at home, and safe in the run-up to Christmas, and said the strikes sent an extremely clear signal about Russia's priorities despite ongoing peace talks. He added that Russian President Vladimir Putin still cannot accept that he must stop killing.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will have to send more weapons to Ukraine, just days after Pentagon paused critical weapons deliveries to Kyiv. NATO jets were scrambled overnight as Russia carried out its largest drone attack yet on Ukraine, launching more than 700 drones, officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the "new massive Russian attack on our cities" involved "728 drones of various types, including over 300 Shaheds, and 13 missiles – Kinzhals and Iskanders. "Most of the targets were shot down. Our interceptor drones were used -- dozens of enemy targets were downed, and we are scaling up this technology.

A U.S. citizen died during a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, the State Department confirmed Tuesday afternoon. An American citizen was among the 15 killed in Russian drone and missile strikes on the Ukrainian capital city, Kyiv, on Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce confirmed in a press conference Wednesday. In response to a reporter's question on U.S. diplomats in Kyiv having to spend the night in a bunker, Bruce said "we can confirm the death of a U.S. citizen in Ukraine." "We are aware of last night's attack on Kyiv that resulted in numerous casualties, including the tragic death of a U.S. citizen," she said, noting, "We condemn those strikes and extend our deepest condolences to the victims and to the families of all those affected." Bruce did not offer any more details on the identity of the citizen killed by the Russian strikes, citing "respect to the family during this obviously horrible time."

Despite the evident practical importance of license plate recognition (LPR), corresponding research is limited by the volume of publicly available datasets due to privacy regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To address this challenge, synthetic data generation has emerged as a promising approach. In this paper, we propose to synthesize realistic license plates (LPs) using diffusion models, inspired by recent advances in image and video generation. In our experiments a diffusion model was successfully trained on a Ukrainian LP dataset, and 1000 synthetic images were generated for detailed analysis. Through manual classification and annotation of the generated images, we performed a thorough study of the model output, such as success rate, character distributions, and type of failures. Our contributions include experimental validation of the efficacy of diffusion models for LP synthesis, along with insights into the characteristics of the generated data. Furthermore, we have prepared a synthetic dataset consisting of 10,000 LP images, publicly available at https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13342102. Conducted experiments empirically confirm the usefulness of synthetic data for the LPR task. Despite the initial performance gap between the model trained with real and synthetic data, the expansion of the training data set with pseudolabeled synthetic data leads to an improvement in LPR accuracy by 3% compared to baseline.

At least 11 people were killed and dozens injured after Russia bombed a busy lakeside resort on the edge of Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv and attacked villages in the surrounding area. At least 13 people were injured after the Ukrainian military shelled areas of Russia's southern Belgorod region, according to Belgorod's regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said Russian attacks in the Kharkiv area "slowed down a bit" but that forces "continue their attempts to break through our defences near Vovchansk, Starytsya and Lyptsi". Russia's Ministry of Defence, which claimed earlier to have seized Starytsya, said its units "continued to advance into the depth of the enemy's defences". Officials said Russia shot down at least 103 Ukrainian drones, including 62 over Russian regions, as well as missiles that targeted Crimea, which Moscow seized and annexed from Ukraine in 2014.