The Ukraine War - Part II

On Feb. 24, 2022, Russia started a broad invasion of the Ukraine. Have you followed the news closely enough to answer the following questions?

Various sources, among others: OHCHR Kiel Institute for the World Economy IAEA OHCHR Deutsche Welle BBC

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President still in power in the Kremlin	Vladimir Putin
Ukrainian President still defending his country	Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukrainian capital the Russians failed to conquer in the early stages of the war	Kyiv
Town in the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital where Russian forces according to strong evidence committed war crimes in March 2022	Bucha
Coastal city in Southern Ukraine, besieged and heavily bombed by Russian forces between Feb. and May 2022, killing thousands of civilians	Mariupol
Regiment of the Ukrainian national guard (denounced as ultranationalist by the Russian side) defending the city above, particulary in Azovstal steel plant	Azov
Flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, sunk in April 2022	Moskva
Country with the most Ukrainian refugees	Poland
Letter of the alphabet that has become a symbol of the Russian forces	Z
Ukrainian salute spreading around the world after the beginning of the invasion (guess the Ukrainian version or English translation)	Slava Ukrayini/Glory to Ukraine
International financial transaction system major Russian banks have been excluded from in March 2022	SWIFT
Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant occupied by Russian forces and shelled multiple times in the course of the war	Zaporizhzhia
UN Agency that sent a mission to this power plant examining the security situation (acronym)	IAEA
Headquarters of this UN Agency (a European capital)	Vienna
Oblast (province) including the largest Eastern Ukrainian city, liberated by a Ukrainian counteroffensive in Sept. 2022	Kharkiv
Country which gave the most military aid to Ukraine	United States
Mobile multiple rocket launcher delivered by this country and described as a key weapon	HIMARS
Battle tank the Ukraine desperately wants from Germany (but Chancellor Scholz refuses to deliver)	Leopard
Country with the most aid to Ukraine in relation to its GDP	Estonia
On Sept. 30, 2022, Russia annexed four regions in the East and Southeast of Ukraine. Name them:	Donetsk
#2	Luhansk
#3	Zaporizhzhia
#4	Kherson
Mockery of democracy the Russian military administration undertook in order to give these annexations a «legal» look	referendums/votes
Gas pipeline system in the Baltic Sea damaged by alleged sabotage in Sept. 2022	Nord Stream

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