Russia's ruthless minefields aren't just handcuffing Western tanks. Each day the war drags on the mines get more buried — and are likely to haunt Ukraine for many years to come.

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Two Ukrainian soldiers clear mines and a warning sign about mines.
Soldiers prepare to clear an anti tank mine by using rope to remove the detonator during a mine clearance training exercise on July 11 2023, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine; Unexploded munition collected by de-mining unit of National Guards of Ukraine before they will be destroyed seen in near Kherson.

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Yevgeny Prigozhin once wrote a children's book that takes place in a land of tiny people

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Yevgeny Prigozhin
Yevgeny Prigozhin at a foreign investors meeting in St. Petersburg in 2016.

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Heineken finally cuts ties with Russia 18 months after the Ukraine invasion

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Heineken trucks, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Prigozhin was scrambling to salvage his business empire from Kremlin control in the days before his death, report says

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner private-mercenary group.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner private-mercenary group.

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HIMARS changed the game in Ukraine, but a former US artillery officer says what they need now is a firepower boost with M26 cluster rockets

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A M142 HIMARS launches a rocket on the Bakhmut direction on May 18, 2023 in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
A M142 HIMARS launches a rocket on the Bakhmut direction on May 18, 2023 in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

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Meet the Prigozhins: What to know about the Wagner boss and the relatives who help run his business empire

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Polina Prigozhina, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and Lyubov Prigozhina.
Polina Prigozhina, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and Lyubov Prigozhina.

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The sanctions against Russia aren't working, says the foreign minister of Germany

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Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister.
Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister.

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US intelligence is trying to figure out what apparently caused Prigozhin's plane to crash, and early theories range from missiles to bombs

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Emergency specialists carry a body bag near wreckages of the private jet linked to Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin at the crash site in the Tver region, Russia, August 24, 2023.
Emergency specialists carry a body bag near wreckages of the private jet linked to Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin at the crash site in the Tver region, Russia, August 24, 2023.

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A deadly plane crash appears to have killed Wagner's top boss, but even without Prigozhin, the group likely isn't a 'chicken with its head cut off,' expert says

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Members of Wagner group sit atop of a tank in a street in the city of Rostov-on-Don, on June 24, 2023.
Wagner's brief mutiny in June left multiple dead and destroyed several Russian military assets.

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Did Putin kill Prigozhin? It's one of 3 possible explanations Russia watchers came up with for the deadly plane crash

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Vladimir Putin (left) and Yevgeny Prigozhin (right).
Yevgeny Prigozhin was a longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin before staging a failed mutiny against the Russian defense ministry in June 2023.

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