A Ukrainian arms dealer accused of corruption is now one of the country's top weapons suppliers

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Ukrainian soldiers load ammunition into a 2s9 artillery vehicle in Donetsk Oblast on April 14, 2023.

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Russia is manufacturing its own version of Iran's Shahed attack drones to continue air attacks on Ukraine, report says

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A Russian drone, considered by Ukrainian authorities to be an Iranian-made Shahed-136, over Kyiv on October 17, 2022.

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Ukrainian troops left 'underprepared' by NATO training as instructors don't understand the type of warfare or the enemy, report says

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An instructor briefs Ukrainian soldiers during grenade training at a training center near Yavoriv, Ukraine, on April 29, 2017.

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Ukrainian morgues seeing 'more or less double' the fatalities since counter-offensive began

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Ukrainian servicemen carry a coffin of one of the three Ukrainian soldiers killed during the battles with Russian troops.
While Ukraine does not disclose the number of casualties it has sustained, General Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, estimated in February that Ukraine had lost more than 100,000 soldiers since the war began last year.

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Zelenskyy fires recruitment officials for accepting $10,000 bribes to help Ukrainian men dodge the draft: 'bribery during war is treason'

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Warsaw, Poland, on April 5, 2023.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Warsaw, Poland, on April 5, 2023.

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Ukrainian troops face critical delays while learning to pilot F-16 jets and won't be ready to fly until next summer

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An F-16 jet with its landing gear extended to land at the U.S. military airfield at Spangdahlem, Germany.
President Joe Biden, who had staunchly opposed sending F-16s to Ukraine, in May reversed course and backed the idea of providing training to Ukrainian troops to pilot the jets.

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The Kremlin won't admit how many soldiers have died in Ukraine, but researchers have now identified 30,000 dead Russians by name

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The Russian Foreign Ministry building is seen in central Moscow behind a billboard featuring "Z letters" — a tactical insignia for Russian troops in Ukraine. The billboard reads: "Victory is being Forged in Fire."

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Ukrainian pilots have been taking English classes in between their missions to prepare to fly US-made jets

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A F-16 is flow during a mission at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, Feb. 14, 2019.
Biden green-lit F-16s in May after increasing pressure from Ukraine and NATO officials, but the timeline for Ukrainian forces to get the prized jets is still up in the air.

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Ukraine is evacuating towns in an area it reclaimed last year, in a sign it could be losing ground to Russia

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A woman holds a piece of shrapnel standing in the rubble of a house where Ukrainian servicemen were sheltering which destroyed by a Russian S-300 rocket strike, in Kupiansk, Ukraine.
A woman stands in the rubble of a house where Ukrainian servicemen were sheltering, which was destroyed by a Russian S-300 rocket strike, in Kupiansk, Ukraine, February 20, 2023.

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Ukraine's daring nighttime raid across a river was likely a 'distraction' as it seeks to punch holes in Russia's defenses, experts say

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Members of the Foreign Legion move to a forward position to fire on Russian soldiers across the opposite bank of the Dnipro River on November 17, 2022 in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine.

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