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For Valentyn, a Ukrainian soldier in the Donetsk region, the war’s death toll is more than a statistic. He is tasked with moving wounded troops — and dead bodies — away from the front lines, often under Russian fire.
Ukraine’s defense minister reported the first U.S.-made Patriot air-defense battery had arrived this week, but secret documents show Kyiv was still waiting for tanks and ammo for its coming counteroffensive.
The action late Friday was the latest in a series of steps by Ukraine to distance itself from a long legacy of Russian domination.
President Biden announced that diplomatic personnel, who had been stuck in the midst of a brutal war for more than a week, were evacuated from the capital, Khartoum.
The U.S. will begin training Ukrainian troops on M1 Abrams tanks in the next few weeks, officials said, and combat-ready tanks could reach the battlefields by the fall.
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Documents that were among leaked classified military assessments of the war reveal the struggles of Western allies to fulfill their pledged deliveries of tanks and other weapons systems.
A blast in Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border, was the result of “an accidental discharge of aviation ammunition,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said.
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