Good evening I'm William Brangam. I'm N'avaz and Jeff Bennett are away. On the news hour tonight,

Alexei Navalny's widow accuses the Kremlin of covering up the opposition

leader's killing and vows to continue his fight for a free Russia.

Poland's foreign minister discusses the state of Ukraine's nearly two-year-long war with

Russia and the impact Congress's stalling of US support is having on the battlefield.

Without the United States, we are... the defend itself. And the conservative group behind allegations of illegal

ballot stuffing in Georgia's 2020 election admits it has no evidence to

support its claims. Welcome to the news hour.

Russia has cemented a substantial battlefield win in

eastern Ukraine tonight after a grinding four-month fight. Moscow says its

force has cleared the last Ukrainian defenders from

Avdika, a bombed-out city in the Danetsk region. Russian military footage showed

attacks on a sprawling industrial site in Avdica.

Ukraine said its forces had to retreat

because of a lack of ammunition.

President Volodimir Zellensky

warned today that Russia is exploiting the delay of new American aid.

26 members of the European Union are calling for an immediate humanitarian pause in Gaza.

That came today as Hamas health officials reported the Gaza

death toll has passed 29,000 and Israel released security camera video

purportedly showing a hostage and her two small boys wrapped in a sheet.

They were seen in Khan Yunus in Gaza just after being taken captive in October. The UN's top court has kicked off a six-day hearing into Israel's

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