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Russia unleashed a combined missile and drone barrage on Ukraine early today, knocking out power and heat to thousands of homes in Kyiv as temperatures plunged, Ukrainian officials said. One person was killed in the wider Kyiv region and at least one was wounded in the capital, where debris also damaged a school and disrupted water supplies on the city’s left bank. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said heating was cut to 5,635 multistory apartment buildings across the city of more than 3 million. The outage hit as the mercury…

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said a new 20-point plan aimed at ending Russia’s invasion would freeze the current front line and open the way to possible troop withdrawals and demilitarized zones, while dropping a requirement that Kyiv legally renounce its NATO aspirations. Zelensky said the latest draft, agreed by U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators, is now being reviewed by Russia. He acknowledged some provisions are unpalatable to him and warned that the Kremlin is unlikely to abandon its hardline territorial demands.…