EU leaders announced a multi-billion dollar funding plan for Ukraine’s economy and military. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin hosted his end-of-year news conference, where he signaled there’d be no compromise on Ukraine.

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Users of Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction platform, can now wager on military developments inside Ukraine using real-time battlefield mapping. The system previously overlaid frontline data from DeepState, Ukraine’s most widely used open source war map. DeepState has said it did not give permission for its data to be used in gambling markets.

Pavlo Rybaruk earned a master's degree in Appalachian Studies. He used his knowledge in fighting to help people in his country.