Ukraine's efforts to rack up Russian defectors and their equipment helped land the country an Mi-8 helicopter and fighter jet parts

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A Ukrainian service member watches an MI-8 helicopter.
A Ukrainian service member watches an Mi-8 helicopter during training in August.

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Wreckage of Prigozhin's plane was scattered across roughly 4 miles, and experts say it looks like an explosion knocked it out of the sky

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Portrait of Yevgeny Prigozhin next to his supposed plane crash that he died in
Portrait of Yevgeny Prigozhin next to his supposed plane crash that he died in

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

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Pictures show the afterlife of Ukraine's Mriya-225, the biggest plane in the world, whose ruined parts could yet fly again

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A front-on view of the fuselage, with the front severed off and the interior visible, with part of the left wing still attached on the ruined Mriya-225 plane at Hostomel airport, Kyiv, on August 10, 2023
A view of the open fuselage, and part of the wing of the ruined Mriya-225 plane at Hostomel airport, near Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 10, 2023.

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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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Russia says it is an 'absolute lie' that Putin ordered the death of Wagner warlord Prigozhin. Few in the West believe it.

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People lay carnations to a memorial as they pay tribute to Yevgeny Prigozhin in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on 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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