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Territorial control during the Russo-Ukrainian war
Map of the oblasts of Ukraine. Russia had control of Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk (the striped areas) prior to the 2022 invasion.

This page provides information on the most recently known control of localities in Ukraine during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014 and escalated with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It includes all larger localities across the country, as well as some smaller localities close to current or recent lines of contact. It also includes a timeline of changes in territorial control, both of individual settlement captures and changes in the overall area under Russian control.

Zaplava
Zaplava (Ukrainian: Заплава), known in 2016–2024 as Poima (Ukrainian: Пойма) and before 2016 as Tsiurupynsk (Ukrainian: Цюрупинськ), is a rural settlement in Ukraine, located in Oleshky urban hromada, Kherson Raion, Kherson Oblast.
Music of French Polynesia
The music of French Polynesia came to the forefront of the world music scene in 1992, with the release of The Tahitian Choir's recordings of unaccompanied vocal Christian music called himene tārava, recorded by French musicologist Pascal Nabet-Meyer.  This form of singing is common in French Polynesia and the Cook Islands, and is distinguished by a unique drop in pitch at the end of the phrases, which is a characteristic formed by several different voices; it is also accompanied by steady grunting of staccato, nonsensical syllables.

The Tahitian Choir
The Tahitian Choir is a choral group from the island known as Rapa Iti, one of the Bass Islands in the South Pacific, approximately 1,000 miles southeast of Tahiti.  The choir is made up of 126 men and women.  Their music portrays their traditional Tahitian life and dialect and has been recorded on two albums and one re-release, recordings produced by Ethnomusicologist Pascal Nabet Meyer.
Pretz
Pretz (プリッツ, Purittsu) is a Japanese snack made by Ezaki Glico. Like Ezaki Glico's other popular snack, Pocky, Pretz is stick-shaped and comes with a texture similar to pretzels. Unlike Pocky, Pretz is dusted with seasonings instead of being enrobed in a flavoured fudge.

Pretz comes in multiple varieties and three sizes: Regular, Kid's, and Giant. Most Pretz come in the Regular size, with some flavours also being offered in Giant size. The Kid's size is a smaller pack of Pretz and is sweeter to appeal to children. Kid's packages also come with a cartoon child on the package. The Double Pretz variety offers two separate flavours on a single Pretz stick (one flavor on each half) and the Meets Wine variety is a cheese-flavored Pretz named to suggest it be paired with wine.

Fudge
Fudge is a confection made by mixing sugar, butter, and milk. Modern fudge has its origins in the 19th century United States, and became popular in American women's colleges late in the century. Fudge can come in a variety of flavorings depending on the region or country it was made; popular flavors include fruit, nut, chocolate, and caramel. Fudge is often bought as a gift from a gift shop in tourist areas and attractions.
Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu
Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu (8 November 1893 – 25 November 1964) was an Indian violinist in the Carnatic classical tradition. Known for his refined bowing technique and expressive playing, Naidu was one of the most celebrated violinists of the 20th century in Carnatic music. He was the recipient of several awards, including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1953 and the Padma Shri in 1957. Despite being partially blind, Naidu achieved international recognition and influenced many students and musicians during his career. Several members of his family are also notable Carnatic violinists.

Andhra University
Andhra University is a public university located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established in 1926 by the Andhra University Act, 1925 (Madras Act II of 1926). It is graded as an A++ institution by National Assessment and Accreditation Council, receiving a score of 3.74 on a scale of 4.
Aldis Berzins
Aldis Imants Bērziņš (born October 3, 1956) is a Latvian-American former volleyball player who was a member of the United States national team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He also won a gold medal at the 1985 FIVB World Cup in Japan, where he was selected as the best digger.

United States men's national volleyball team
The United States men's national volleyball team represents the country in international competitions and friendly matches. The team is governed by USA Volleyball, and it has won six Olympic medals, three of them gold.
Agudath Israel
Agudath Israel can refer to any of several related organizations, including:

World Agudath Israel, an international movement

Agudath Israel of America, an American organization

Agudat Yisrael, an Israeli political party

Agudat Yisrael
Agudat Yisrael (Hebrew: אֲגוּדָּת יִשְׂרָאֵל, romanized: Agudath Israel, lit. 'Union of Israel'; Ashkenazi Hebrew: Agudas Yisroel) is a Haredi Jewish political party in Israel. It began as a political party representing Haredi Jews in Poland, originating in the Agudath Israel movement in Upper Silesia. It later became the party of many Haredim in Israel. It was the umbrella party for many, though not all, Haredi Jews in Israel until the 1980s, as it had been during the British Mandate of Palestine.

Since the 1980s it has become a predominantly Hasidic party, though it often combines with the Degel HaTorah non-Hasidic Ashkenazi Haredi party for elections and coalition-forming (although not with the Sephardi and Mizrahi Haredi party Shas). When so combined, they are known together as United Torah Judaism.
Ong Kim Seng
Ong Kim Seng (Chinese: 王金成; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ông Kim-sêng; pinyin: Wáng Jīnchéng) is a self-taught Singaporean watercolor artist. Since 1985, he has participated in group and solo exhibitions at Singapore and in the United States, China, United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Middle East, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the ASEAN countries.

Ong is the first and only Singaporean to have won six awards by the prestigious 138-year-old American Watercolor Society (AWS), of which he was conferred membership in 1992. He is also the only Asian artist outside the US to be admitted into AWS.

Singapore Art Museum
The Singapore Art Museum (Abbreviation: SAM) is an art museum with multiple venues across Singapore. It is the first fully dedicated contemporary visual arts museum in Singapore with one of the world’s most important public collections by local and Southeast artists. It collaborates with international art museums to co-curate contemporary art exhibitions.

SAM presents art across multiple spaces such as Tanjong Pagar Distripark, its heritage buildings and other partner venues across Singapore. The heritage buildings are located at two adjacent sites. The main building, dating back to 1955 is the former Saint Joseph’s Institution on Bras Basah Road; the second building known as the 'SAM at 8Q' was the former Catholic High School on Queen Street. The museum organised the Singapore Biennale in 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019 and will continue to do so in 2022.
James Tartaglia
James Phillip Frank Tartaglia (born 29 October 1973) is a British philosopher who defends metaphysical idealism and existential nihilism, as well as a jazz saxophonist whose "jazz-philosophy fusion" combines jazz music with philosophical ideas.

Existential nihilism
Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose". The supposed conflict between our desire for meaning and the reality of a meaningless world is explored in the philosophical school of absurdism. Of all types of nihilism, existential nihilism has received the most literary and philosophical attention.
Keith Bearne
Keith Robert Fraser Bearne (born 11 March 1937) is a Scottish former international rugby union player.

Bearne was born in London, to an English mother and Scottish father. He learned his rugby in Wales while attending Rydal School and played varsity rugby for Cambridge University, where he was awarded three blues.

A back-row forward, Bearne represented Lancashire and gained two Scotland caps in the 1960 Five Nations, playing against France at Murrayfield and Wales at Cardiff. He also toured Canada with the national team in 1964.

Bearne finished his career with Liverpool and emigrated to South Africa in 1967.

Cambridge University R.U.F.C.
The Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club, sometimes abbreviated "CURUFC", is the rugby union club of the University of Cambridge. The team plays Oxford University RFC in the annual Varsity Match at Twickenham Stadium every December.

Cambridge players wear light blue and white hooped jerseys with a red lion crest. Many have gone on to represent their country and the British and Irish Lions; a few, most notably Dan Vickerman, James Horwill and Flip van der Merwe, have represented Cambridge after successful international careers. While at the University of Cambridge James Bevan became the first captain of the Wales national rugby union team. The CURUFC stadium is located in West Cambridge, beside Grange Road.
Močile, Črnomelj
Močile (pronounced [mɔˈtʃiːlɛ]) is a small settlement north of Stari Trg ob Kolpi in the Municipality of Črnomelj in the White Carniola area of southeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.

Municipality of Črnomelj
The Municipality of Črnomelj (pronounced [tʃəɾˈnoːməl]; Slovene: Občina Črnomelj) is a municipality in southeastern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Črnomelj. The municipality is at the heart of the area of White Carniola, the southeastern part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. It borders Croatia on the Kolpa River.
2010 UCI Juniors Track World Championships
The 2010 UCI Juniors Track World Championships were the 36th annual Junior World Championships for track cycling held at Montichiari, in Italy, from 11 to 15 August.

The Championships had ten events for men (sprint, points race, individual pursuit, team pursuit, 1 kilometre time trial, team sprint, keirin, madison, scratch race, omnium) and nine for women (sprint, individual pursuit, 500 metre time trial, points race, keirin, scratch race, team sprint, team pursuit, omnium).

Madison (cycling)
The Madison is a relay race event in track cycling, named after the first Madison Square Garden in New York, and known as the "American race" in French (course à l'américaine) and as Americana in Spanish and in Italian.
Avantus
Avantus, formerly known as 8minute Solar Energy, is an American photovoltaic (PV) developer of utility-scale PV power plants and energy storage. Founded in 2009 by Tom Buttgenbach and Martin Hermann, it was acquired by KKR fifteen years later.

Tom Buttgenbach
Thomas H. Buttgenbach is an American businessman in the clean energy industry [1]. He is the founder of Avantus, one of the largest independent solar and energy storage developers in the US [2][3] (previously 8minute Solar Energy, and 8minutenergy Renewables LLC).

Under Buttgenbach’s leadership, Avantus secured over $10 Billion in power purchase agreements and project financings. With over 30 GW of solar and 90 GWh of energy storage, capable of powering the homes of more than 20 million Americans day and night, Avantus had one of the largest clean energy portfolios in the U.S., before he sold it to KKR in mid-2024.[4]
Yobo
Yobo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Joseph Yobo (born 1980), Nigerian footballer, brother of Albert

Adaeze Yobo (born 1990), Nigerian socialite

Albert Yobo (born 1979), Nigerian footballer

Joseph Yobo
Joseph Michael Yobo OON (born 6 September 1980) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He was the captain of the Nigerian national team until his international football retirement in June 2014, and was Nigeria's record appearance holder. In February 2020, he was appointed assistant coach of the Super Eagles by the Nigeria Football Federation.
James Broadhurst
James Broadhurst (born 1 December 1987) is a former New Zealand rugby union lock who played provincial rugby for Taranaki, Super Rugby for the Hurricanes, and for the All Blacks. He was also a national representative at the under-19 and under-21 levels.

Broadhurst was born in Kaitaia and educated at Campion College in Gisborne.

Broadhurst made his debut for New Zealand on 25 July 2015 against South Africa but was subbed off at half-time. In September that year Broadhurst received two serious head knocks while representing Taranaki and was taken off the field due to concussion. Broadhurst has not played a game of rugby since then, with symptoms of concussion still ongoing for him as of early 2017.

His brother is Japan rugby player Michael Broadhurst.

He retired in April 2017 after failing to recover from the ongoing effects of concussion.

Gisborne, New Zealand
Gisborne is a city in northeastern New Zealand and the largest settlement in the Gisborne District (or Gisborne Region). It has a population of 38,100 (June 2025). Gisborne District Council has its headquarters in the central city.
Portrait of Selina Meade
Portrait of Selina Meade is an 1819 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Lawrence. It depicts Lady Selina Meade, who came from an Anglo-Irish background. After her father Earl of Clanwilliam fell out with his family in Ireland he settled in Austria where she grew up. Her elder brother Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam was an aide to the British Foreign Secretary Lord Castlereagh.

Following his attendance at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle to paint notable members of the Quadruple Alliance as part of a commission from the Prince Regent, Lawrence travelled to Vienna to paint the Austrian Emperor and other notables. In the Austrian capital he painted Selina Meade in the fashionable style of the Regency era. In the bottom right is the spire of Saint Stephen's Cathedral.

The work was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1820 at Somerset House in London. The painting was sold at the auction house Christie's for more than £2.85 million in 2019.

Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam
Richard Charles Francis Christian Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam GCH (15 August 1795 – 7 October 1879), styled Lord Gillford between 1800 and 1805, was a British diplomat and politician of Anglo-Irish background. A protégée of the British Foreign Secretary Lord Castlereagh he played an active role in the Concert of Europe in the post-Napoleonic era.
Maunoury
Maunoury is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Auguste-François Maunoury (born 1811), Catholic Hellenist and exegete

Catherine Maunoury, French aerobatic pilot

Ernest Maunoury (1894–1921), French World War I flying ace

Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury (1914–1993), French Radical politician, Prime Minister in the Fourth Republic during 1957

Maurice Maunoury (1863–1925), French politician born in Egypt, Minister of the Colonies, Minister of the Interior

Michel-Joseph Maunoury (1847–1923), commander of French forces in the early days of World War I

Simon Maunoury, male badminton player from France

Ernest Maunoury
Sous Lieutenant Ernest Joseph Jules Maunoury was a French flying ace during World War I. He was credited with eleven confirmed aerial victories. He survived the war, only to die in a flying accident on 21 September 1921.
Spatial Concept (painting)
Spatial Concept (Italian – Concetto Spaziale) is a c. 1965 painting by the Argentine-Italian painter Lucio Fontana. It is now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp.

The painting was featured in the 1980 BBC television series 100 Great Paintings.

Lucio Fontana
Lucio Fontana (Italian: [ˈluːtʃo fonˈtaːna]; 19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor, and theorist. He is known as the founder of Spatialism and exponent of abstract painting as the first known artist to slash his canvases – which symbolizes an utter rejection of all prerequisites of art.
Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty
The Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty underwent a revival during the late 9th, 10th, and early 11th centuries. Under the Macedonian emperors, the empire gained control over the Adriatic Sea, Southern Italy, and all of the territory of the Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria. The Macedonian dynasty was characterised by a cultural revival in spheres such as philosophy and the arts, and has been dubbed the "Golden Age" of Byzantium.

The cities of the empire expanded, and affluence spread across the provinces because of the newfound security. The population rose, and production increased, stimulating new demand for trade.

Culturally, there was considerable growth in education and learning (the "Macedonian Renaissance"). Ancient texts were preserved and recopied. Byzantine art flourished, and brilliant mosaics graced the interiors of the many new churches.

Bosporus
The Bosporus or Bosphorus Strait is a natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in Turkey which is straddled by the city of  Istanbul. The Bosporus connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and forms one of the continental boundaries between Asia and Europe. It also divides Turkey by separating Asia Minor from Thrace. It is the world's narrowest strait used for international navigation.

Most of the shores of the Bosporus Strait, except for the area to the north, are heavily settled, with the city of Istanbul's metropolitan population of 17 million inhabitants extending inland from both banks.

The Bosporus Strait and the Dardanelles Strait at the opposite end of the Sea of Marmara are together known as the Turkish Straits.

Sections of the shore of the Bosporus in Istanbul have been reinforced with concrete or rubble and those sections of the strait prone to deposition are periodically dredged.
Loretta Sanchez
Loretta Lorna Sanchez (born January 7, 1960) is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2017, representing parts of central Orange County, California. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected in 1996, when she defeated long-serving Republican U.S. Representative Bob Dornan by fewer than 1,000 votes. During her time in the House of Representatives, Sanchez was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition of moderate-to-conservative Democrats.

Sanchez chose not to run for re-election to the House in 2016, instead opting to run in the state's U.S. Senate race. She was defeated in the general election by fellow Democrat, California Attorney General and future U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, 61.6% to 38.4%.

She is the sister of Linda Sánchez, who currently represents California's 38th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Political moderate
Moderate is an ideological category which designates a rejection of radical or extreme views, especially in regard to politics and religion. In American politics, "moderate" is an ideological category which entails centrist views on a liberal–conservative spectrum.
Dive (Tycho album)
Dive is the second studio album by American electronic musician Scott Hansen's project Tycho, released on November 8, 2011, by the label Ghostly International. Taking around five years to produce and write, it was released to mostly positive reviews from critics, and it landed on Billboard's United States Top Dance/Electronic Albums and Top Heatseekers Albums charts.

Dive continues what Drowned in Sound described as a consistent style and sound palette from past Tycho albums, and was also made with mostly hardware and analog equipment. The sound of the album was also considered more "dynamic", "multidimensional" and "livelier" than past Tycho records by reviewers.

Outboard gear
Musical outboard equipment or outboard gear is used to process or alter a sound signal separately from functionality provided within a mixing console or a digital audio workstation. Outboard effects units can be used either during a live performance or in the recording studio.
I Wanna Dance with You
I Wanna Dance with You is the eleventh studio album by American country music artist Eddie Rabbitt, released by RCA Records in 1988. The album produced four singles including the title track, a cover of Dion DiMucci's 1961 hit "The Wanderer", "We Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right" and "That's Why I Fell in Love with You". The first two singles both topped the country charts.

The Wanderer (Dion song)
"The Wanderer" is a song written by Ernie Maresca and originally recorded by Dion, released on his 1961 album, Runaround Sue.  The song, with a 12-bar blues-base verse and an eight-bar bridge, tells the story of a travelling man and his many loves.  The song is ranked number 243 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Glenn Tilbrook: One for the Road
Glenn Tilbrook: One for the Road is a 2004 documentary directed by Amy Pickard which follows
a 2001 solo American tour by Glenn Tilbrook, lead singer of British new wave group Squeeze.

The film, which was self-financed by Pickard after she sold all her possessions,  shows Tilbrook attempting to mount a month-long US tour using a mobile home instead of a tour bus and hotels. The film centres on Tilbrook's apparent good humour in the face of a series of calamities - including vehicle breakdown - and his unusual stagecraft. At one stage he takes his entire audience into a car park and in another sequence performs in a fan's apartment.

The film features performance excerpts from a number of Squeeze and Tilbrook songs including:
"Tempted", "Hourglass", "Take Me I'm Yours", "Up the Junction", "Goodbye Girl", "Some Fantastic Place" and "By The Light of the Cash Machine".

The film premiered in 2004 at London's Raindance festival and has since been released on DVD.

Up the Junction (song)
"Up the Junction" is the third single released from Squeeze's second album, Cool for Cats. Sung by Glenn Tilbrook, it is one of the band's most notable songs (especially in the UK), and reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, the same position as its predecessor, "Cool for Cats".
CyberFlix
CyberFlix Incorporated was a computer game company founded in 1993 by Bill Appleton. CyberFlix was based in Knoxville, Tennessee. They made many interactive story-telling games in the 1990s, but stopped any and all productions in 1998 before finally going out of business in 2006.

Two of its best known games were Titanic: Adventure Out of Time and Dust: A Tale of the Wired West.
CyberFlix also released the games Skull Cracker, Redjack: Revenge of the Brethren, Power Rangers Zeo vs. the Machine Empire, Lunicus, and Jump Raven.

CyberFlix's founder, Bill Appleton, is famous for his work with the SuperCard development environment and for the early World Builder adventure game production system. He also founded a company called DreamFactory in 1998. DreamFactory kept the trade mark for CyberFlix registered until November 25, 2006.

World Builder
World Builder is a game creation system for point-and-click text-and-graphics adventure games. It was released for Macintosh in 1986 by Silicon Beach Software and had already been used for creating Enchanted Scepters in 1984. On August 7, 1995, developer  William C. Appleton released World Builder as freeware.