Kupyansk, a city of strategic significance, in Ukraine's Kharkov region is currently under the control of the Russian West Group of Forces, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed in its daily routine update on Saturday.
The update also said that the Russian army is clearing out Ukrainian troops hidden in various buildings and basements in Kupyansk.
Previously, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at his annual end-of-year press conference in Moscow on Dec 19 that Kupyansk was under the control of Russia's military, and about 3,500 Ukrainian soldiers had been surrounded by Russian forces near the city.
On Dec 12, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted on social media that he had inspected the Kupyansk front line that day.
Kupyansk is a key logistics hub and defense stronghold for Ukrainian forces in the Kharkov region. Russia previously controlled the city from February to September 2022, during which time it served as the region's administrative center.
Russian Defense Ministry claims control of strategic city of Kupyansk
China has issued a trial guideline on the ethics review and service of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Friday.
The guideline, jointly issued by 10 government departments, including the ministry, calls for efforts to support technological innovation in AI ethics review and to strengthen the use of technical measures to prevent AI-related ethical risks.
The guideline clarifies that the review should focus on human well-being, fairness and justice, and controllability and trustworthiness.
It also details issues that should be addressed in the review, such as the selection criteria for training data, the rationality of the algorithm, model and system design, and measures to prevent bias, discrimination and algorithmic exploitation.
The guideline also calls for promoting the orderly open-sourcing of high-quality datasets for AI ethics review, strengthening the development of general risk management, assessment and auditing tools, and exploring risk assessment based on application scenarios.
It also encourages the promotion of AI products and services that comply with scientific and technological ethics, and the protection of intellectual property rights in AI ethics review technologies.
China issues guideline for AI ethics governance
