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Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson.

And today is Thursday, December 26th, 2024.

This is the excerpt.

Today, we have the latest on violence in Russia and Ukraine this week. Plus, what happened to a plane that went down in Kazakhstan?

And we discussed the future of ski slopes amid climate change.

Russia attacked Ukraine's energy system and several cities with crews and ballistic missiles,

along with drones yesterday.

Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, called it an inhuman Christmas Day assault.

The strikes wounded at least six people in the northeastern city of Harkiv and killed one in the region of Denepro Petrovsk.

The governors there said.

President Joe Biden denounced Russia's

moves and said he had asked the Defense Department to push forward with a new wave of military aid

Ukraine. Elsewhere, Russia's Federal Security Service said earlier today it had foiled several

plots by Ukrainian intelligence services to kill high-ranking Russian officers and their families in Moscow,

using bombs, disguised as power banks or document folders.

Earlier this month, Ukraine's SBU intelligence service killed Lieutenant General Kirolov,

the head of Russia's nuclear, biological, and chemical protection troops in Moscow

outside his apartment building by detonating a bomb attached to a scooter.

A passenger jet crashed in Kazakhstan yesterday, killing at least 38 people, while some 29 survivors received hospital treatment.

The Azerbaijan Airlines flight had flown hundreds of miles off its scheduled

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