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But the front line creeps ever closer, with Russia also threatening to encircle defenders from the north and west.

"Match day was almost a day when curfew would encircle the family and you had to make sure everyone was home, because there was such a lot of anger and violence," Dr Puwar remembers.

At one point, Ohtani mischievously sneaked up on Friedman as he was encircled by reporters and sprayed champagne in his face.

China held a live-firing exercise from its territory closest to Taiwan one week after it launched a large-scale drill encircling the island.

Together with other bases further north, it could be seen as an attempt by China to encircle the long Vietnamese coast.