DECEMBER 2023: Latest images from the war-torn region.

Ukrainian service members of the Fourth Ivan Vyhovskyi Separate Tank Brigade take their seats in a 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer before firing toward Russian troops near the front line town of Kupiansk on Christmas Eve in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, December 24, 2023.

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