Russia prepared for Ukraine war with university blood drives and by having surgeons practice on large animals — but they may not have been ready for the extent of the casualties

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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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Putin is likely counting on Trump or another Republican to win the 2024 election in hopes that the US will cut support to Ukraine, officials say

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Former President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in Danang on November 11, 2017.

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‘He's torturing people': Video shows Russian troops being stripped naked and forced to pluck grass

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Russian conscripts called up for military service wait to board a train at a railway station in Omsk on November 27, 2022.

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Russia is playing risky games with its exploding drones, attacking Ukrainian ports only a couple hundred meters from NATO territory

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A view shows a marine station building destroyed during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Izmail, Odesa region, Ukraine August 2, 2023.
A view shows a marine station building destroyed during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Izmail, Odesa region, Ukraine August 2, 2023.

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Russian oil and grain exports halted after Ukraine drone strike near Black Sea port

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Russian Novorossiysk submarine.

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In a desperate scramble for ammo, Russia's defense chief flew all the way to North Korea to beg for some of theirs

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Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu attends a reception for the Russian military delegation hosted by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as part of the 70th anniversary celebration of the Korean War armistice in Pyongyang, North Korea, July 27, 2023, in this image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency.
Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu attends a reception for the Russian military delegation hosted by North Korean leader Kim Jong

Russia claimed to have defeated a Ukrainian sea drone attack, only to be instantly humiliated by a video showing it didn't

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A Ukrainian sea drone slams into a Russian warship in Novorossiysk on August 4, 2023.

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Russia is jamming 'sophisticated' US weapons being used in Ukraine, making them useless, report says

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This US Air Force file image obtained 13 March 2003 shows the JDAM-ER, or Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range, shown on an F-16 Fighting Falcon before a test at White Sands Missile Range,New Mexico.

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Ukraine just proved its sea drones are a huge threat to Russia's navy. An expert says this may only be the start.

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A Russian warship sails through the Black Sea.
A screen grab captured from a video shows the more than 20 Russian navy ships started a military drill in the Black Sea, in Russia on January 26, 2022. The ship in this picture is not the ship in this story.

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Russia's formidable minefields are 'insane' to navigate, with as many as 5 mines per square meter, Ukrainian official says

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A billboard indicates the presence of landmines at the position of a Ukrainian volunteer unit in a suburb of Kyiv on February 28, 2023.

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