Russian defectors fighting for Ukraine are attacking their motherland and rolling across the border in tanks: reports

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Representatives of the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps holding a briefing near the border in northern Ukraine last year.
Representatives of the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps holding a briefing near the border in northern Ukraine last year.

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The Russian war machine is fired up but won't be able to keep going like this indefinitely, war analysts say

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A Russian soldier stands guard at the Luhansk power plant in the town of Shchastya in April 2022.

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NATO's newest member says it's ready to fortify a strategic island in the middle of the Baltic Sea close to Russia

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Swedish military officials watch a C-130H take off from a runway on Gotland Island on October 23, 2021.

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Ukraine has been a disaster for Russia's troubled army, but the deadlock is shifting things in Moscow's favor, US intelligence says

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Ukrainian National guard soldiers simulate assault operations during tactical training at a shooting range in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024.
Ukrainian National guard soldiers simulate assault operations during tactical training at a shooting range in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024.

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Russia is eyeing big tax hikes after this month's election to pay for the war in Ukraine

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Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the new residential building of the presidential lyceum at the Sirius Park of Science and Art outside Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023.

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Ukrainian medic says they 'rarely' evacuate wounded soldiers during the day to avoid Russian drone strikes

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Ukrainian Army medics treat wounded Ukrainian soldiers at a stabilization point in the direction of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on October 26, 2023.

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Sweden conducted its first reconnaissance flights near the Russian border since joining NATO

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Planes from different NATO nations' militaries fly in formation over the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge on June 6, 2022, during an exercise in the Baltic Sea.

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Russia is making the use of its glide bombs a priority, and it's causing devastation on the front lines

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Ukrainian officer Maksym Radchenko walks amid the devastation caused by a Russian glide bomb that landed in a road near a school in the village of Petropavlivka, Ukraine.

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Russian military bloggers call out gap between Kremlin propaganda and reality over Ukraine's Dnipro bridgehead

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KHERSON REGION, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 14: Ukrainian infantrymen soldiers travel on the Dnipro River on boats on September 14, 2023 in Kherson region, Ukraine.
Ukrainian soldiers on the Dnipro River on September 14, 2023, in Kherson region, Ukraine.

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After Russia lost 2 prized A-50 planes, Ukraine struck a factory that's replacing them, reports say

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A Russian Beriev A-50
A Russian Beriev A-50.

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