Here's what needs to happen for Ukraine to make a breakthrough against Russia's defensive lines, according to war analysts

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Ukrainian soldiers sit on infantry fighting vehicles as they drive near Izyum, eastern Ukraine on September 16, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Russian officers who hadn't been paid by Moscow sold key intel on the Black Sea Fleet to Ukrainian resistance fighters. Then the headquarters blew up.

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A satellite image shows smoke billowing from a Russian Black Sea Navy HQ after a missile strike, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Sevastopol, Crimea, September 22, 2023.
A satellite image shows smoke billowing from a Russian Black Sea Navy HQ after a missile strike, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Sevastopol, Crimea, September 22, 2023.

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Ukrainian drone video captures inflatable Russian tanks on the battlefield, highlighting the role decoys and deception are playing in the war

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Russian team members on a T-72 B3 battle tank salute during the finals of the tank biathlon at a military polygon, on August 27, 2022, in Alabino, outside of Moscow, Russia.
Russian team members on a T-72 B3 battle tank salute during the finals of the tank biathlon at a military polygon, on August 27, 2022, in Alabino, outside of Moscow, Russia.

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A Ukrainian commando described being thrown off a speedboat while under fire, then telling his comrades to abandon him

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Ukrainian soldiers aboard an inflatable boat in a video shared on September 11, 2023, by Ukraine's military-intelligence agency.

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Trade ties between China and the EU are 'at a crossroads' over Russia's war in Ukraine, senior official warns

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FILE PHOTO: European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis takes part in a news conference on the capital markets at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 8, 2018. REUTERS/Yves Herman
FILE PHOTO: European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis takes part in a news conference on the capital markets in Brussels

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A Cuban man promised a job as a driver in Russia was instead trained to fight Ukraine: 'We signed a contract with the devil'

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Russian servicemen patrol the destroyed part of the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol on May 18, 2022, amid the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine.

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Ukraine's 'army of drones' are bombarding Putin's forces, hitting a record 205 pieces of Russian military equipment last week, official says

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A Ukrainian drone pilot reaches for a reconnaissance drone in the Luhansk Region, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023.
A Ukrainian drone pilot reaches for a reconnaissance drone in the Luhansk Region, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023.

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Ukraine got its first Abrams tanks from the US — 8 months after Russia's propagandists claimed it already destroyed one

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An M1A2 Abrams at the Army Armor School at Fort Benning in Georgia on April 29, 2022.

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Ukraine says it launched its missile strike on the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet to coincide with a meeting of Russian naval officers

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A Russian frigate is anchored at a naval base in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Sevastopol
A Russian frigate is anchored at a naval base in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Sevastopol in April 2010.

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Wild video shows Ukrainian drone flying through dense forest into a Russian hideout before exploding, military says

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Russian dugout identified in a forest west of Kreminna, in Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine.

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