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Explained: Russia and Ukraine trade airstrikes as reconstruction and security talks resume in Brussels
Compiled Nov 5

Russia and Ukraine traded overnight airstrikes as Brussels talks resumed on post-war reconstruction and security guarantees
- Security guarantees
- Assurances from allied nations meant to protect Ukraine from future attack after the war ends
- NATO headquarters
- The Brussels base of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance of Western military powers
- BlackRock
- A US investment group that was attending the Brussels talks on Ukraine's reconstruction funding
- Annexed
- Territory, here Crimea, formally incorporated into Russia after being taken by force, not recognized internationally
- Wildberries
- A Russian retail company whose warehouse in the Ryazan region was damaged in the drone attack

