If you’re still searching for the most pristine destination among the different Long Beach, California beaches, Alamitos Beach is another ideal destination that’s closer to the shore of the ocean. Related: Best Beaches in Southern California 2. Recommended Hotel Nearby: The Pacific Inn If you manage to drop by during the annual tree lighting ceremony before Thanksgiving, you’ll behold an even brighter beach.Īdditionally, try to arrive early to secure a parking slot for yourself because it’s going to get crowded during these times. The myriad of lights and colors will greet you while they reflect beautifully on the calm waters. The real charm of these sands lies in the sunset. If you’re the sporty kind, there are volleyball courts ready to game on as well. Visitors can casually peruse and cruise around Bay Shore Avenue, which is exclusively for walking and biking. ![]() Ratings CriteriaĪlamitos Bay Beach has been the go-to for enjoying the shores of Southern California. Want to have a perfect view of the sun and seas?Īlamitos Bay Beach provides a spectacular sight of both with a cooling breeze along the coastline. Here are the top 12 Beaches in Long Beach, CA. Previous travelers highly recommended the Haunted Encounters tour but warn it may run a bit longer than other tours.If you’re down to swim under the bright sun, Alamitos Park Beach is ready to accommodate you in your coming vacation. There are also nighttime dining experiences, in addition to more unique activities, such as illusion performances and paranormal walks through the supposedly haunted parts of the ship. For those exploring independently, there's a scavenger hunt to follow. Exhibits include the Shipyard and the Ship Model Gallery, where you can admire replicas of the Queen Mary in its prime. There are different tours to choose from, including a Steam and Steel tour that brings you deep into the bowels of the ship to the boiler rooms and generators. Once known for its classy atmosphere and high profile guests like Winston Churchill, the ship is now frequented by travelers looking to learn about its history and get a glimpse into the luxury of the past.Īboard the ship, travelers can take guided tours and explore different themed exhibits. One of the most popular attractions in Long Beach is the Queen Mary, a retired British cruise ship that operated numerous transatlantic voyages throughout the early 1900s. Many people enjoy participating in the free yoga classes that take place on Junipero as well. This is also one of the only areas in Bluff Park with handicap accessible beach entrance. ![]() The beach has many convenient amenities, such as showers, lifeguards on duty during peak months and bike paths. Because the sand area is wide, there's plenty of space for visitors to spread out and you're sure to get a solid spot. Here, the sand is soft and waves are calm, making it an ideal place for families. At Junipero, the high rises that back Alamitos are replaced with the more residential communities of Bluff Park. This strip of coastline begins where Alamitos Beach ends. However, a crowd favorite is Junipero Beach – also called Cherry Beach – which stretches along the Bluff Park area. There's Rosie's Dog Beach, which is a great place to bring your furry friends. There's Alamitos, which is easily accessed from the downtown area and close to hotels. While there are miles of shoreline in the Long Beach area, not all beaches are made equal.
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![]() The corrupted Dark Crystal begins to cease giving its energy away, with the Skeksis emperor skekSo ordering his scientist skekTek to devise an alternative means. Skeksis and urRu/Mystics CharacterĪdditional voices by Warrick Brownlow-Pike, Dave Chapman, Stewart Clarke, Kevin Clash, Alice Dinnean, Barbara Drennan, Damian Farrell, Louise Gold, Beccy Henderson, Isabella Laughland, Omar Malik, Sarah Beck Mather, Jack Myers, Mark Restuccia, Irfan Samji, Helena Smee, Katherine Smee, Neil Sterenberg, Olly Taylor, and Victor Yerrid.Īdditional puppeteers included Don Austen, Sue Beattie, Mikey Brett, Sarah Burgess, Carl Chadd, Sheila Clark, Marcus Clarke, Richard Coombs, Ronnie Le Drew, Phil Eason, Phil Fletcher, Lesa Gillespie, Andy Heath, Sarah-Jane Honeywell, Steven Kynman, Steve Nallon, Angie Passmore, Colin Purves, Andrew Spooner, Victoria Willing, and Michael Winsor, amongst others.Ī millennium has passed since Mother Aughra entrusted the Crystal of Truth to the alien Skeksis, who siphon its lifeforce to maintain eternal youth while proclaiming themselves Thra's rulers. ![]() On the planet Thra, three Gelflings – Rian, Brea, and Deet – inspire a rebellion after discovering a horrifying secret behind their customarily worshipped rulers, the Skeksis, that threatens their entire planet. In September 2020, it was announced that the series had been canceled after one season. The series premiered on August 30, 2019, to critical acclaim. It follows the story of three Gelflings: Rian, Deet, and Brea, as they journey together on a quest to unite the Gelfling clans to rise against the tyrannical Skeksis and save their planet Thra from a destructive blight known as the Darkening. It is a prequel to the 1982 Jim Henson film The Dark Crystal that explores the world of Thra created for the original film. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is an American fantasy television series produced by Netflix and The Jim Henson Company. ![]() Now it passes the baton on to other missions that will be designed to find such signals, signals so elusive that Einstein himself thought that they were unlikely ever to be observed. It's about as easy as looking for the single blink of a firefly in the middle of a motorway, using only a handheld phone."Ĭo-author Eamonn Kerins of the University of Manchester also comments, "Kepler has achieved what it was never designed to do, in providing further tentative evidence for the existence of a population of Earth-mass, free-floating planets. From that cacophony, we try to extract tiny, characteristic brightenings caused by planets, and we only have one chance to see a signal before it's gone. Our observations pointed an elderly, ailing telescope with blurred vision at one the most densely crowded parts of the sky, where there are already thousands of bright stars that vary in brightness, and thousands of asteroids that skim across our field. Iain notes: "These signals are extremely difficult to find. This meant that new data reduction techniques had to be developed to look for signals within the Kepler dataset. Kepler was not designed to find planets using microlensing, nor to study the extremely dense star fields of the inner Galaxy. Roughly one out of every million stars in our Galaxy is visibly affected by microlensing at any given time, but only a few percent of these are expected to be caused by planets. ![]() This produces a short burst in brightness that can last from hours to a few days. Predicted by Albert Einstein 85 years ago as a consequence of his General Theory of Relativity, microlensing describes how the light from a background star can be temporarily magnified by the presence of other stars in the foreground. Such planets may perhaps have originally formed around a host star before being ejected by the gravitational tug of other, heavier planets in the system. These new events do not show an accompanying longer signal that might be expected from a host star, suggesting that these new events may be free-floating planets. However, the four shortest events are new discoveries that are consistent with planets of similar masses to Earth. Many of these had been previously seen in data obtained simultaneously from the ground. The study team found 27 short-duration candidate microlensing signals that varied over timescales of between an hour and 10 days. During this two-month campaign, Kepler monitored a crowded field of millions of stars near the center of our Galaxy every 30 minutes in order to find rare gravitational microlensing events. The study, led by Iain McDonald of the University of Manchester, UK, (now based at the Open University, UK) used data obtained in 2016 during the K2 mission phase of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. What Cyberlink needs to work on is making background connections to external and remote media a background process. As I said, mileage will vary with hardware. On the other hand, there were no traces of moire or shimmer that you’ll find on all be the very best 8K UHD TVs. There were no major hiccups though panning of detailed city- and nature- scapes wasn’t quite as smooth as with a top-end TV. You can almost always make a movie look better in PowerDVD than in other players.Īs to that, I played all the 2160p (4K UHD) and 4320p (8K UHD) test material I use to test TVs, on my 2015 iMac (running Windows 10) with its Core i5-6500 and AMD Radeon R9 M380 GPU. While VLC and Media Player Classic will serve most users quite well, they don’t offer the ease and breadth of PowerDVD’s True-this and True-that video enhancements discussed above. If any of you movie buffs recognize it, let me know. ![]() Cyberlink’s wasn’t bad this one’s better. Lastly, the company has moved from its own movie info database to a third-party repository of film knowledge with nice results. Don’t ask me why I thought of that.Ĭyberlink has added the facial recognition/tagging featured in its other products to PowerDVD’s image section, which also plays into the new social aspects of PowerDVD. This can save quite a bit of time you’d otherwise spend memorizing the last location (tough when you’re falling asleep) and scrolling, and eliminates the possibility of ruining the suspense when you accidentally skip past your last location. If you only use it lightly, the perpetual license with less capacity might make more sense.Īnother new feature is “resume.” If you’re like me and don’t always finish a movie in one sitting, you’ll appreciate that PowerDVD now offers to take you back to where you left off. The 365 rental version is renewable in and of itself, and being only $55, is likely the better deal if you make heavy use of the cloud services. Higher-resolution videos will be transcoded to 720p or 1080p resolution.ġ00GB of Cyberlink Cloud storage is provided free for one year with the perpetual version of PowerDVD 20 Ultra, and can be renewed for $10 per 10GB per year, up to a maximum of 100GB. Not all are available with all material or hardware, however HDR color enhancement, for example, is only available if your PC’s graphics hardware supports it.Ĭyberlink’s Cloud can be used to store, share, and stream your movies. The latter is useful if your camera didn’t take care of this on its own. While it’s not obliging of antiques, PowerDVD’s real value lies in its TrueTheater enhancements: HD upscaling, HDR color, lighting, motion compensation, noise reduction, and stabilization. The program is also a more than capable librarian and organizer with playlists, rankings, and the like. Some legacy (RealMedia) and oddball codecs (some FLV, and even some older AVC) that VLC handles easily won’t play, or play only as audio with PowerDVD. It also plays a very wide variety of the most popular video, audio, and image files, though it’s not quite as universal as the company has at times trumpeted. It still does that, as well as supporting new Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray movie discs if you have an HDCP-capable GPU. As you might suspect from the name, the program started life as a tool to play DVD movies (including copy-protected commercial titles) from a PC. ![]() Legacy featuresīefore I get to the new stuff-a basic overview of what PowerDVD 20 does and what makes it better than the rest. But it could use some work in the dialogs and menus. CyberlinkĬyberlink’s PC interface is attractive and efficient with basic tasks. And I’m being picky-you’ll adapt in short order. To be fair, most video player configuration dialog boxes and menus are even less efficient, while not being nearly as good-looking. ![]() It creates true thermal images with a resolution of 206 x 156, or over 32,000 thermal pixels. It has a manual focus lens for viewing objects at close range, or at distances of up to 1,800 feet. Seek Thermal's Seek CompactXR is a small extended range thermal camera that plugs into the microUSB connector on Android devices and the Lightning connector on iOS devices. ![]() The company also announced a partnership with Accuweather that automatically populates reports with weather conditions, including humidity. announced version 3.1.0 of its secure mobile data collection platform, which allows users to embed photos, notes, and diagrams/sketches directly into their forms while completing reports on any mobile device. The Xtreme models are offered in levels II and IIIA and feature male and female structured and female unstructured designs. The Xtreme ballistic panels feature fabric using DuPont Kevlar KM2 Plus fibers with a proprietary weaving and proprietary material called Core Matrix Technology. The Safariland Group has an all-new line of ABA Xtreme body armor solutions. The new model is designed for faster application and easier use while one-handed. North American Rescue showed its new Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT) Generation 7, available in black or rescue orange. In addition to its recently announced Automated Video Redaction (AVR) Technology, at IACP VieVu announced two new cameras built on a modular platform, the LE4 and the LE4mini, and a multi-dock portal that allows for automated video uploading without a computer. Rocket IoT enables police departments to view and manage police without having to sift through files on different platforms. ![]() Utility announced the unveiling of Rocket IoT, a smart patrol car system that fully integrates video captured from In-Car and Utility BodyWorn cameras. TASER also announced that in 2016 users will be able to run Axon's on Microsoft's Azure GovCloud. TASER debuted its Axon Body 2 body camera featuring unlimited HD, and the Axon Fleet HD in-car video system priced at $499. TASER chose a futuristic space theme as a backdrop against which to make multiple announcements at the show. The display can be temporarily disabled for stealth recording. The RS2-X2 has a 120-degree x 60-degree field of view and features a two-inch screen that displays the video as it is being captured. Reveal Media showed its RS2-X2 body-worn camera. It is expected to be available in January 2016. ![]() But more notably, Point Blank Enterprises debuted its Alpha Elite Black concealed body armor ballistic package designed to be thin and 17% lighter than its predecessor but still provide Level IIIA protection. It features an HD camera for still photos, up to 64GB video storage, and a built-in 2-inch TFT LCD display. Point Blank showed its Intelligence Retrievable Incident System (IRIS) body-worn camera at IACP. The Si500 VSM integrates with Motorola's Digital Evidence Management Solution (DEMS) and the CommandCentral Vault storage system, as well as the company's other public safety solutions. It's designed to be worn on the shoulder where officers are used to speaking into their mics, and its T-shape allows for better gripping even when wet. The Si500 Video Speaker Microphone (VSM) from Motorola combines real-time video, voice communications, and voice recording, plus still images and emergency alerting in one. Normally, subheadings leverage a different style if we look at the font and the size we use in the body of the text. Writers often use subheadings as mini-headlines to improve readability and provide more information. This reduction of working area decreases the number of words that fit on a page, increasing the number of pages along with it. However, increasing margin sizes reduces the area in which we can type the words. Margins are the gaps between the edge of the paper and where words are presented.īy default, on all word processing tools, a margin of 1-inch is around the text on all sides. Bold font takes up a few extra pixels than the regular font type does. The larger the font, the lesser one can write on each page.Įven using the bold option on the font can change the page. Text sizes will also affect each page’s word count.īigger sizes reduce the number of words per page. Meanwhile, Calibri at font size 12 would be the same number of pages. Times New Roman at font size 12 would be a little less than 10 pages. For example, Arial is smaller at font size 12, as compared to Courier New at the same font size.įor comparison, the same number of words for 10 pages with Arial, size 12, increases to 14 pages using Courier New, size 12. Some fonts are larger compared to others. FontĮach font type has been designed differently. Let’s take a closer look at some of these other factors which impact the relationship between document length and word count. The Presence of Images, Charts and TablesĪnd of course, as the charts above show, a larger line space (double spacing) could translate to more pages for the same amount of words as compared to a reduced line space (single spacing).You’ll also need to consider things like: It compares the two word processing tools Google Docs and Microsoft Word. The following chart shows the average number of pages your document will be based on the word count of your document. A double spaced Microsoft Word page will have approximately 275 wordsĬhart: Average Number of Pages by Word Count.A 1.5 spaced Microsoft Word page will have approximately 375 words.A single-spaced Microsoft Word page will have approximately 550 words.Using the same font of Arial, size 12 as a guide, we’ll find can fit slightly more words per page. Similar to its competitor, MS Word’s default size of the page is also letter-sized with 1-inch margins from the top, bottom, left, and right. How Many Words per Page in MS Word for single, 1.5, or double spaced documents A double-spaced Google Docs page will have approximately 250 words.A 1.5-spaced Google Docs page will have approximately 350 words.A single-spaced Google Docs page will have approximately 500 words.Using the font Arial and size 12 and disabling the automatic addition of space between paragraphs gives the following results: Google Docs’ default page is the standard letter size of 8.5-inches x 11-inches with 1-inch margins from the top, bottom, left, and right. How Many Words per Page in Google Docs for single, 1.5, or double spaced documents Nowadays, document word count (or page count) can also provide an idea of how long it will take to read a document. The limitation of words can make it easy to know what to expect from a project or assignment, and can ultimately help guide you when making editing decisions on your project later on. Conversely, if you have to write a 2,500 word essay, you may be wondering how many pages you’ll need to write. If you have an 5-page essay assignment for school, you may want to know how many words that will be. ![]() Word count and page numbers can be useful for writers to understand how they can organize their work, ideas, and manage their time. Why Worry About How Many Words there are Per Page? In this article I’ll help you estimate how many words per page there will be when using either Microsoft Office Suite‘s Word or Google Docs for word processing, with some general average word count numbers based on document line spacing, font, subheading usage, and more. ![]() However, words per page depend on several factors such as font size, line spacing, margins, number of paragraphs, and even page size. Both tools have a word count feature, but it helps to know approximately how many words fit on a page. Students and creative writers, academic and business writers often use either Google Docs or MS Word as their go-to word processing tool. It is a question that a lot of people think about when writing reports or essays. ![]() – Lets you completely and permanently erase old, unwanted and unneeded personal Stuff, so no one can access or retrieve it.įinds all of the duplicate files scattered across your computer’s hard drive, so you can remove them and free up disk space for more of your Stuff. – Permanently erases all record of your Web activities, so others can’t see what you do online. 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Norton Utilities Portable helps you automatically optimize your PC’s processing power, memory and hard drive. Get the tools you need to get your PC running like new. Repairs hard drive problems and frees up hard drive space. Norton Utilities Portable – Cleans up, tunes up and speeds up your PC to help it run like new. ![]() It is not necessary that all supply trucks survive to achieve this part of the mission. (Once the bulldozer arrives, these buildings will be destroyed by Rocket Buggies and Scud Launchers if you don't baby-sit them with your Comanches.) Position your missile defenders inside the two civilian structures to the right of the docks. Keep this sentry drone located here, as this will give you a great "heads-up" for approaching GLA – especially important to protecting your Comanches from incoming Quad Cannons. Call in an airstrike to destroy these vehicles. Keep that sentry drone located where it is and move another one to the other side of the bridge, far enough to locate the GLA vehicles at the warehouse. You should also have enough time to destroy a few stinger sites on the far right side of the map. This bunker poses a danger to your Comanches later in the mission. Go ahead and destroy the bunker immediately to the north of your base. These are the main deterrents from moving your supply trucks to the warehouse once all ten arrive. Destroy these two by calling in missile barrages. Move a sentry drone to the east far enough to reveal two bunkers. They might look like "Mech Warriors" but their fighting capacity is basically limited to taking on lone infantry.Ī new icon appears to the right that gives the ability to call in artillery strikes from your battleships. Sentry drones are not meant for heavy combat.When moving them to a forward position, hit the stop command on the control console if GLA enter the area. Position them along the paths of incoming GLA to give yourself valuable preparation time before their arrival. Sentry drones cannot be seen when they are stationary.A Command Center must be built in order to utilize your General Powers.Protect yourself from a few attacks and achieve a few objectives while waiting for the final supply truck to arrive. This part of the mission is not difficult. You can try the mission both ways for two totally different experiences. Note: the full-scale assault can be prevented by early destruction of the GLA base. Note that losing aircraft does not stop further airstrikes. Note that any craft destroyed will be automatically and freely replaced. Using this ability will force all aircraft on board to fly to that area. Select it and you will see the option to guard/protect your base. Go to the bottom left corner of the map and you will see your aircraft carrier. Your base will be overrun if your defensive focus is lax. You will have to defend yourself from a full-scale assault from the GLA. The action really starts once the ten supply trucks arrive at the warehouse and you are provided a bulldozer to start construction of your base. When all ten arrive, they must be safely escorted to the warehouse. The first part is to protect the port while ten supply vehicles unload at the dock. Use the Battleship Bombardment ability to pummel the GLA base. The focus is on their sexy appearance, with fashionable boots, skirts, and handbags painted in bright colors. DND (Voluntary National Team), 2011, depicts three young women walking the street, cropped in such a way that their heads are outside the picture plane. The paintings on the gallery walls provide windows into ’60s mass culture in the USSR via Grig’s culling and reworking photographs from illustrated magazines and using the graphics of period neon signs. But the idealized pioneer’s main mission seemed to be the representation of popular culturewhose graphic language and aesthetics Grig has appropriated in many of his worksrather than watching over his fellow Russians. Karasev’s portrait was featured on the cover of an old board game, an interactive video of which was projected onto the gallery’s floor. The work’s protagonist, Vasek Karasev, is a smiling young pioneer modeled on canonical characters from Soviet children’s literature, whom the artist charged with a mission to spy on Soviet citizens as they go about their daily lives. In the video Vasek Karasev and a Spy, 2008–11, Grig returned to the aesthetics of official book illustration and design under Communism, which interest him also as an influence on Moscow Conceptualism in the 1970s. ![]() In five large acrylic paintings included in this show, he recycles images associated with the 1960s USSR and presents them as products of a mass culture that, although rooted in local experience, reflected a widespread fascination with the lifestyle of the West. In his exhibition “Kustrakita over the River”whose title refers to a famous patriotic song of the Soviet periodVladimir Grig challenges both nostalgic yearnings for the mythical Russian past and adversarial attitudes toward the Soviet era. A fascination with the Soviet past might also reflect the renewed upsurge of Slavophilism, which encourages Russians to admire their national heroes and to savor the uniqueness of their experience, closing the gap between grim reality and a profound mysticism, quickly resurgent after the fall of Communism. They perceive it in a less conflicted manner than they once did, acknowledging the playfulness of its mass culture while, at the same time, linking its graphic language to social and cultural (rather than political) transformations. Today, Russians approach the legacy of the USSR with a growing historical distance and a peculiar sense of introspection. His art project entitled Dimensionen was exhibited as part of the 55th Venice Biennale parallel programme.Vladimir Grig, London Calling, Moscow Speaks, 2010–11, acrylic on canvas, LED light, 63 x 70 7/8". Vladimir participated in numerous Moscow art fairs between 20. He took part in the 4th Biennale of Graphic Art in Krasnodar in 1994, the 4th International St.Petersburg Spatia Nova Biennale in 1996, Russian Days in Germany in 2003, the Baltic States Biennale of Graphic Art in 2008. Vladimir is also a 2011 Kuryokhin Prize and 2012 Kandinsky Prize nominee. His Underground Kingdom project received a Dynasty Foundation prize in 2009. In 1995, Nocturne Final III won him a scholarship of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 19, he received Krasnodar art institutions’ awards. Grig’s works have been awarded in Russia and Germany. Petersburg-based artist and musician Vladimir Grigorashchenko. Vladimir Grig (Russian: Владимир Григ born March 21, 1962, Krasnodar, USSR) is the pen name of Russian, St. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vladimir Grig's net worth $5 Million. Vladimir Grig is one of the richest Artist & listed on most popular Artist. ![]() To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video What is Victory Day in Russia? Victory Day in Russia: What was the most important message from Putin's speech? The Kremlin refers to the invasion of Ukraine not as a war, but as a "special military operation." But because Vladimir Putin's long-term goal is to get his people ready for a longer conflict, he had to give them something to rally around," said Tilton. Russia was the country that invaded first, Russia was the country that started bombing and shooting. We know there wasn't any western aggression directed towards the Russian Federation. "It is a reversal of the actual situation on the ground. "He was saying this is about Russia and Russian security, and blamed Ukrainians and the West for attacking Russia." "Putin tried to delegitimize Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian government by connecting them to some sort of Nazi past," said DW Correspondent Aaron Tilton. However, there was no mention of a general or partial mobilization of soldiers. There had been speculation that Putin would announce an escalation of military action. "The state will do everything to take care of these families." Russian service members take part in a military parade on Victory Day in Red Square Image: Maxim Shemetov/REUTERS The analysis of Putin's claims "The death of every soldier and officer is painful for us," he said. Putin also promised support for the families of fallen soldiers. He claimed Russia was fighting for "the Motherland" in Donbas, "so that no one forgets the lessons of World War II." They did not want to listen to Russia, they had other plans," said Putin. "NATO was creating tensions at the borders. He said the invasion was the "only right decision" with a false claim that the West was "preparing for invasion of Russia." His address centered on the ongoing war in Ukraine, which began following Russia's invasion on February 24. People holding photographs of their relatives who fought against Nazi Germany in WWII take part in an Immortal Regiment procession in Vladivostok Image: Yuri Smityuk/TASS/dpa/picture alliance What did Putin say in Victory Day speech? Military parades also took place in Vladivostok and Novosibirsk. President Vladimir Putin started a major speech to the Victory Day parade by saying soldiers were fighting for Russian security once again.Īround 11,000 soldiers participated in the parade on Moscow's Red Square. ![]() Russia celebrates the 9th of May on Red Square with a military parade, to commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.ĭespite government claims that the alleged drone attack was meant to target President Vladimir Putin, authorities have confirmed that the parade would go on as scheduled.Russia marked the 77th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany on Monday. Meanwhile, preparations for the annual Victory Day parade continue in Moscow. ![]() No casualties were immediately reported.Īfter the all-clear was given, Ukraine’s military said it had taken down one of its own drones that had “lost control” over the capital, but at least one other drone was reportedly shot down in another area of the city and it was not clear whether it was Russian or also Ukrainian. Two defensive missiles streaked across the evening sky, and a loud explosion was heard. Kyiv's Mayor, Vitali Klitschko, reported two impacts from downed drones. This latest bout lasted around 20 minutes, with exchanges of fire. Sirens went off in the Ukrainian capital on Thursday night as Russian forces pounded the city in nightly air raids. Next week, he is expected to go to Berlin, the capital of European Union economic powerhouse Germany. |
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