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Wounded Ukrainian soldiers are returning to the battlefield as heavy casualties shrink platoons
Veterans who are too disabled from their injuries to be of aid on the front lines are working in ar…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Russia is forcing Ukrainian civilians stuck in occupied towns to join the army and 'fight against their own country,' watchdog reports
Civilians in occupied regions say Russia is pressuring and threatening them to join the army and fi…
Chris Panella
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Russia is scaling back its use of the feared Ka-52 attack helicopter after Ukraine got good at taking them out: ISW
The Ka-52 attack helicopter is among the most feared weapons in Russia's arsenal, and has slowed Uk…
Tom Porter
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Zelenskyy says Ukraine has a 'comprehensive plan' to liberate Bakhmut and 2 other key cities
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that his forces had a "very, very comprehensive plan" …
Alia Shoaib
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Russia is withholding meds, including insulin, from Ukrainians in occupied territories if they refuse to get a Russian passport
Insulin and thyroid meds are among the subsidized care being withheld from Ukrainians in Zaporizhzh…
Mia Jankowicz
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Russia's formidable minefields are 'insane' to navigate, with as many as 5 mines per square meter, Ukrainian official says
Ukraine has launched a counteroffensive to push back the Russian invasion, but has encountered form…
Tom Porter
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2 Ukrainian teenagers who it's alleged were tortured by the Russians shot an 'occupier' and a 'collaborator' before they were gunned down, reports say
A Ukrainian nonprofit organization reported in May that the teenagers had been tortured by Russian …
Isobel van Hagen
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Ukrainian collaborators who sided with Russian occupation were given top jobs and fancy titles. Now they're being hunted down.
In occupied Melitopol, a once-obscure local politican became mayor, but, Galina Danilchenko now liv…
Mia Jankowicz
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Western defense officials urge Ukraine to focus counteroffensive resources on southern push — even if it means heavy troop and equipment losses
Ukraine's counteroffensive is struggling, in part, because too many troops are in the wrong areas, …
Erin Snodgrass
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Russian infighting may have led to Ukraine retaking a key town in its counteroffensive: report
Ukraine has seized a strategically important village from Russia after mercenaries refused to fight…
Tom Porter
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Putin is paying parents in occupied Ukraine $167 to send children to school and receive a Russian education
A payment of 10,000 rubles has been offered to parents willing to send their kids to Russian-contro…
Mia Jankowicz
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Russia may 'suddenly break' under pressure from Ukraine's counteroffensive, former US general Petraeus says
Despite overwhelming difficulties, Ukraine is applying constant pressure to Russia's front line, Pe…
Mia Jankowicz
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Amid a slogging counteroffensive, Ukraine sees a day of good fortune: a Russian air defense system was destroyed, one Russian pilot successfully defected, and, now, the Wagner leader may be dead.
On Wednesday, Ukrainian military claimed it destroyed a Russian air-defense system and helped a Rus…
Lloyd Lee
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Russian tourists need to cross active war zones in Ukraine to get to their summer vacations in occupied Crimea
Russian media is instructing tourists to maintain vigilance, avoid traveling at night, and to only …
Chris Panella
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Ukraine says so many Russians were killed that the Russian army is storing dead soldiers in a meatpacking plant turned morgue
The Ukrainian government says Russians are looking for industrial refrigerators to store bodies aft…
Cheryl Teh
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Ukraine breached Russia's fearsome defenses with vehicles for the first time, analysts say a major milestone in its fightback
Soldiers took armored vehicles past parts of Russia's "Surovikin Line" for the first time, the Inst…
Sophia Ankel
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Ukrainian hackers created fake profiles of attractive women to trick Russian soldiers into sharing their location, report says. Days later, the base was blown up.
Russian soldiers sent the Ukrainian hackers photos, which they geolocated and sent to the Ukrainian…
Sophia Ankel
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'Mad panic' evacuation as IAEA warns of a nuclear accident at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia plant occupied by Russian forces
The UN nuclear watchdog issues a stark warning that a 'severe nuclear accident" looms at Ukraine's …
Bethany Dawson
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Russia-installed mayor in captured Ukrainian city says it's now airing Russian state TV, which is heavily censoring news of the war
Russian forces kidnapped and detained the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Melitopol, and installed R…
Bill Bostock
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At least 23 dead after Ukrainian civilians trying to help relatives flee Russia-occupied zones were bombed in their cars, officials say
A car convoy of civilians who wanted to help relatives flee the newly-annexed territory in the Zapo…