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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dalvinder45" data-source="post: 225714" data-attributes="member: 26009">A mother and her daughter were killed by Russian shelling that hit the town of Nikopol in Ukraine’s eastern Dnipropetrovsk region. Local governor Serhiy Lysak said private houses, a fire station, a college, a school and buses were damaged. Nikopol sits on the right bank of the Dnipro RiverTwo people were injured by debris as Ukraine repelled a Russian drone attack on the region outside Kyiv. One of those hurt was Ilya Ponomaryov, a former Russian lawmaker who has lived in Ukraine for years and is a critic of the Kremlin. He wrote on Facebook that a drone exploded outside his front door, inflicting shrapnel wounds and causing a fire.Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and a number of prominent Russian Politician and activists  who were jailed for criticizing the war in Ukraine were among 26 people freed in the biggest <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/1/us-russia-swap-prisoner-in-extensive-deal" target="_blank">prisoner swap</a> between Russia and the West since the Cold War. Russia got back <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/15/german-court-convicts-russian-of-2019-state-contracted-killing" target="_blank">Vadim Krasikov</a>, a Russian jailed in Germany for the assassination of a former Chechen rebel commander in 2019.Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, awarded two Ukrainian athletes – rower Anastasiia Kozhenkova and diver Oleksii Sereda – with the Grand Vermeil Medal, the French capital’s highest distinction, in a show of solidarity.The Kremlin said that Russian forces would shoot down US-built F-16 fighter jets sent to Ukraine, and claimed the aircraft would have no significant impact on the course of the war. The <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/1/f-16-fighter-jets-land-in-ukraine-to-bolster-defence-against-russia-report" target="_blank">first planes</a> arrived in Ukraine this week.</blockquote>

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