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Recent military developments highlighted the shifting fortunes of the war. The Russian army had successfully captured the Przemysl fortress from Austria-Hungary after a prolonged siege, taking 120,000 prisoners and enabling three Russian columns to turn the tide against Austro-Hungarian and German forces in the Carpathians. Meanwhile, Western Europe’s battlefields saw relentless bombings between French and German forces, while the Eastern front experienced sporadic clashes between Germans and Russians.