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Russia Made Drone Production a Supreme Priority. Now It Swarms the Skies.

Par :Paul Sonne and Kim Barker
Ukraine is struggling to defend itself against the growing number of attack drones that Moscow has started using in its onslaughts.

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Ukrainian firefighters battling a blaze in central Kharkiv after several Russian drones struck the area in July.
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Romania Says Russian Drone Entered Its Airspace

Par :Jin Yu Young and Anton Troianovski
It was the second time in less than a week that a Russian drone had flown through a NATO member’s airspace. Last week, NATO scrambled fighter jets to shoot down Russian drones in Polish airspace.

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A Romanian Air Force F-16 last month during an air show in Romania.
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Trump Says He Will Impose More Sanctions on Russia if NATO Does

Par :Maggie Haberman
It was the latest in a series of new conditions that President Trump had announced on punitive action against Russia for its war against Ukraine.

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President Trump leaving New York for Bedminster, N.J., on Friday night aboard Marine One.
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As Sabotage in Europe Mounts, So Do Calls to Retaliate Against Russia

Par :Lara Jakes
Drones in Poland and GPS jamming attributed to Russia have intensified a debate over whether the West should impose stiffer penalties for such “hybrid warfare.”

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A house that was badly damaged by debris from a Russian drone that was shot down in the village of Wyryki-Wola, in eastern Poland, on Wednesday.
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NATO Steps Up Defenses After Russian Drones Violate Polish Airspace

Par :Lara Jakes
Increased air patrols, air defense systems and other protections will be mobilized over Eastern Europe.

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Officials inspecting a house that was damaged when a Russian drone was shot down in the village of Wyryki-Wola, in eastern Poland, on Wednesday.
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Prince Harry Meets War Veterans in Surprise Visit to Ukraine

Par :Lynsey Chutel
The prince arrived in Kyiv on his second trip to the country this year. The visit comes after his charity supporting wounded soldiers said it would expand post-conflict rehabilitation.

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Prince Harry with a wounded Ukrainian serviceman during a surprise visit to Kyiv on Friday.
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Opposition to Putin Pulls Up European Leaders Dragged Down at Home

Par :Mark Landler
The foreign policy successes of Keir Starmer of Britain, Emmanuel Macron of France and Friedrich Merz of Germany are in contrast with their dismal domestic performances.

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President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at a NATO summit in The Hague in June.
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On Ukraine and Gaza, Trump Casts Himself as a Bystander, if He Can’t Be a Peacemaker

Par :David E. Sanger
President Trump often insists he can bring peace to global conflicts. But when allies and adversaries alike appear to be ignoring him or testing American will, he adopts a what-can-you-do shrug.

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When dozens of Russian drones flew deep into Poland on Tuesday, President Trump left it to Polish leaders and NATO to issue a warning to the Russians.
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On Ukraine and Gaza, Trump Casts Himself as a Bystander, if He Can’t Be a Peacemaker

Par :David E. Sanger
President Trump often insists he can bring peace to global conflicts. But when allies and adversaries alike appear to be ignoring him or testing American will, he adopts a what-can-you-do shrug.

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When dozens of Russian drones flew deep into Poland on Tuesday, President Trump left it to Polish leaders and NATO to issue a warning to the Russians.
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Drone Barrage Over Poland Was a Test for NATO, and the U.S.

Par :Steven Erlanger
A continent already on edge over the Ukraine war sees a Russian challenge to NATO readiness and to an America that wants to disengage from Europe.

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A member of the Polish Army inspecting a damaged house, after Russian drones violated Polish airspace during an attack on Ukraine and some were shot down by NATO fighter jets, in Wyryki, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, on Wednesday.
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Russia’s Strategy Against the West: Escalate Slowly and See if It Responds

Par :Andrew E. Kramer
Ukrainian and European officials say President Vladimir V. Putin has become emboldened by a lack of Western pushback.

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The police inspected the damage to a house caused by debris from a shot-down Russian drone in the village of Wyryki-Wola, eastern Poland on Wednesday.
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Poland Has Invoked NATO’s Article 4. What Comes Next?

Par :Jenny Gross
Article 4 allows member states to start a formal discussion within the alliance about threats to their security. It does not commit the alliance to military action.

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Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland held an emergency meeting in Warsaw on Wednesday.
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Drones Over Poland Are Latest Violation of Countries Near Ukraine

Par :Matthew Mpoke Bigg
Poland denounced what it has described as an incursion by more than a dozen Russian drones. It would not be the first time Russia’s war effort had spilled beyond Ukraine.

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This house in Wyryki, Poland, was struck overnight Wednesday by what was suspected to be a Russian drone.
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Putin’s Message to Ukraine, Europe and Trump: I Won’t Back Down

Par :Anton Troianovski
With escalating airstrikes, the Russian leader appears determined to demonstrate that he will dictate the terms for any end to the war.

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Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, as Russia launched its largest missile and drone barrage of the war.
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NATO Says It Scrambled Fighter Jets to Shoot Down Russian Drones Over Poland

Par :Michael Schwirtz and Qasim Nauman
The incursion was the first time alliance planes had engaged enemy targets in NATO airspace. Poland’s leader called it “a large-scale provocation.”

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Polish military and government officials at a meeting in Warsaw on Wednesday after the drone incursions.
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Russian Bomb Hits Crowd of Retirees, Killing at Least 23, Ukraine Says

Par :Maria Varenikova
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the strike on older people picking up their pensions should prompt a global response.

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Police officers and medics transferring a woman to an ambulance on Tuesday in Yarova, the village in eastern Ukraine where the strike took place.
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Nuclear Sites Dotted Across Ukraine Pose Threat of Radiation Disaster

Par :Andrew E. Kramer · Oleksandr Chubko and David Guttenfelder
Each day of war risks a strike on sites that could scatter radioactive material. Officials say one laboratory near the front has been hit dozens of times.

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The Political Signals Russia Sends With Each Huge Barrage on Ukraine

Par :Andrew E. Kramer
Analysts have linked major attacks to important geopolitical events as the Kremlin tries to strengthen its hand in talks.

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Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers building after Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv on Sunday.
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For Americans in Ukraine, Opportunity and the Lure of Combat

Par :Andrew E. Kramer and David Guttenfelder
The profile of U.S. volunteers in the Ukrainian military has changed, shifting more toward people without military experience and those who saw few prospects for themselves at home.

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U.S. volunteer soldier Zachery Miller, second from left, with fellow foreign solders after a live fire exercise at a military ground in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, in July.
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Russia Strikes Ukraine Government Building in Largest Drone Assault of War

Par :Andrew E. Kramer
Ukrainians said it was the first time a key building in Kyiv’s government district had been damaged since the war began. Russia has kept attacking despite Trump administration efforts at peace talks.

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Smoke rising from a government building on Sunday in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Norway’s Navy Gets a Big Boost With U.K. Ship Deal

Par :Jeffrey Gettleman and Louise Krüger
A plan to buy warships shows how Europe is bolstering defenses amid worries about Russian aggression and President Trump’s isolationist policies, analysts say.

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A frigate under construction in Glasgow, Scotland, on Thursday. Norway has signed a $13.5 billion deal to buy at least five such warships from British shipbuilders.
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Western Troops in Ukraine Before a Peace Deal Would Be ‘Targets’, Putin Says

Par :Ivan Nechepurenko
The Russian leader made the threat a day after European leaders said they were willing to deploy forces on the ground to secure an agreement to end the war.

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A photo released by Russian state media showing President Vladimir V. Putin, center, at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Friday.
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Kim Jong-un Leaves Beijing With Big Diplomatic Wins

Par :Choe Sang-Hun
Mr. Kim’s presence at a Chinese military parade was a sign of his growing geopolitical ​leverage and that North Korea was being accepted as a de facto nuclear power.

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Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, leaving after meeting with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing on Thursday. It was their sixth summit.
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With Trump and Ukraine, Europe’s Leaders Are Playing a Long Game

Par :Jim Tankersley
Leaders on the continent are trying to show the U.S. president that they are serious about laying the groundwork to end the war — and that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is not.

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After a Russian attack on the Kharkiv area of Ukraine in July. Russian forces continue to bombard Ukraine, including killing civilians.
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Trump Administration to End Security Programs Protecting European Allies From Russia

Par :Erica L. Green
Ending the longstanding program is expected to impact hundreds of millions of dollars that have gone toward countries that border Russia.

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President Trump during a NATO summit in The Hague in June.
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Russia Wants ‘Security Guarantees’ Too. Here’s What They Look Like.

Par :Anatoly Kurmanaev
The Kremlin’s vision of national security comes at the expense of Ukrainian sovereignty, underlining the challenges of striking a peace deal.

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A soldier with Ukraine’s 42nd Separate Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkiv region, in May. Russia wants limits on the size and capabilities of the Ukrainian military.
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Europe Aims to Show It Is Ready to Secure Postwar Ukraine

Par :Catherine Porter and Steven Erlanger
President Emmanuel Macron of France hosted a meeting of leaders to review options for protecting any peace with Russia.

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President Emmanuel Macron of France, right, with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the Élysée Palace in Paris on Thursday.
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Trump Grows Frustrated With Putin, as Russian President Bonds With China’s Leader

Par :Erica L. Green
President Trump’s extraordinary summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last month has yet to yield any concrete results on the war in Ukraine.

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President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with President of Poland Karol Nawrocki in the Oval Office at the White House on Wednesday.
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Trump Grows Frustrated With Putin, as Russian President Bonds With China’s Leader

Par :Erica L. Green
President Trump’s extraordinary summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last month has yet to yield any concrete results on the war in Ukraine.

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President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with President of Poland Karol Nawrocki in the Oval Office at the White House on Wednesday.
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Putin Takes His ‘Limo Diplomacy’ to China

Par :Valerie Hopkins
Rides in his hulking bulletproof Aurus with the Indian and North Korean leaders offered the Russian leader an ideal setting for deepening ties.

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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia exiting his Aurus limousine in Beijing on Tuesday.
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Trump Welcomes Poland’s Right-Wing President to White House

Par :Andrew Higgins
The meeting between President Trump and Poland’s largely ceremonial president, Karol Nawrocki, highlighted divisions within the biggest economic and military power on the European Union’s eastern fringe.

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Poland’s right-wing president, Karol Nawrocki, is set to meet with President Trump on Wednesday in the White House.
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Trump Welcomes Poland’s Right-Wing President to White House

Par :Andrew Higgins
The meeting between President Trump and Poland’s largely ceremonial president, Karol Nawrocki, highlighted divisions within the biggest economic and military power on the European Union’s eastern fringe.

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Poland’s right-wing president, Karol Nawrocki, is set to meet with President Trump on Wednesday in the White House.
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Putin and Xi Invoke Wartime Unity as They Hail Ties in Beijing

Par :Lily Kuo and Anton Troianovski
The Russian and Chinese leaders drew on a shared view of their countries’ roles in World War II to cast their modern-day partnership as a challenge to the West.

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Xi Jinping, China’s leader, meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Beijing on Tuesday.
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Ukraine Pursues a Weapons Buildup More Potent Than Any Security Guarantee

Par :Constant Méheut
Kyiv sees a well-equipped army as a stronger deterrent to Moscow than any Western pledges to defend it. It is working to attract billions to buy more arms.

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Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in May. Kyiv is counting on its booming domestic defense industry, which has already delivered drones that swarm the battlefield.
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These Leaders Once Snubbed Putin. Now They’re Glad-Handing Him.

Par :Paul Sonne
Eurasian leaders eagerly met the Russian leader at a summit this week, as President Trump has helped ease his isolation over the war in Ukraine.

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From left: President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Xi Jinping of China were all smiles in Tianjin, China, on Monday.
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Russia Suspected of Jamming GPS for E.U. Leader’s Plane, Officials Say

Par :Amelia Nierenberg
The Bulgarian authorities believe that Russia disrupted navigation signals that would have been used by a plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, European officials said.

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Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union’s executive arm, in Lithuania on Monday. She has been touring E.U. member states near Russia.
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Kyiv Links Moscow to Killing of Former Ukrainian Parliament Speaker

Par :Constant Méheut
Ukraine said it had arrested a suspect in the murder of the politician, who had voiced anti-Russian views. The authorities did not explain how the suspect was tied to Moscow.

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Andriy Parubiy presiding over a session of Ukraine’s Parliament in 2019.
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Xi, Putin and Modi Try to Signal Unity at China Summit

Par :David Pierson and Mujib Mashal
Their display of friendship in China was aimed at projecting an alternative to U.S. global leadership, even as serious differences among them remain.

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Ukraine War Leads to Global Shortage of TNT for Military and Mining Use

Par :John Ismay
Mining materials to make cement, gravel and a host of other common products require an explosive that is becoming more expensive and limited in supply.

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One-pound charges of TNT like these are critical for blasting rocks and minerals needed for construction projects.
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Russian Strikes on Western Assets in Ukraine Send an Ominous Message

Par :Kim Barker and Oleksandra Mykolyshyn
Hitting an American-run factory and European diplomatic offices, the Kremlin appeared to signal that it would resist Western efforts to make peace and protect Ukraine, analysts and officials said.

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A Russian strike this month hit a factory in Mukachevo, Ukraine, owned by Flex Ltd., an American multinational company that makes a range of products.
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Large Russian Air Attack Hits Ukraine, Amid Stalled Bid for Peace Talks

Par :Constant Méheut
It was the second massive assault in three days, as the Kremlin rebuffed peace talks sought by Ukraine and the United States.

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The site of a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Saturday.
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Russia Distracts Its Citizens From Ukraine War With Nonstop Festivals

Par :Ivan Nechepurenko and Nanna Heitmann
A festival known as Summer in Moscow showcases the city’s transformation into an ultramodern metropolis. But the feast can’t last forever.

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People relaxing at a theater festival as part of the celebrations.
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Weapons to Start Flowing Into Ukraine Under European Deal With Trump

Par :Lara Jakes
A package of U.S. cruise missiles is among the first shipments of purchases by NATO allies to be sent to the embattled country.

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Russia has continued to pound Kyiv and other areas of Ukraine with airstrikes, including a barrage on Thursday that killed at least 23 people in the capital.
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Ukraine’s Donetsk Faces Water Crisis Under Russian Occupation

Par :Nataliya Vasilyeva
The Russian authorities have seized on the crisis in Donetsk to argue that taking over the rest of the region from Ukraine would allow Moscow to restore the water supply.

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Residents waiting last month to collect drinking water in Donetsk, a Russian-controlled city in Ukraine.
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Russian Drones Are Flying Over U.S. Weapons Routes in Germany, Officials Say

Par :Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt
U.S. and European military officials are increasingly concerned about the flights, even as Russian acts of sabotage have declined.

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American-made artillery shells prepared in a factory in Scranton, Pa., before being sent to Ukraine.
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Russian Drones Are Flying Over U.S. Weapons Routes in Germany, Officials Say

Par :Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt
U.S. and European military officials are increasingly concerned about the flights, even as Russian acts of sabotage have declined.

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American-made artillery shells prepared in a factory in Scranton, Pa., before being sent to Ukraine.
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2 Weeks After Trump Talks, Russia Bombards Kyiv, Killing at Least 23

Par :Maria Varenikova and Finbarr O’Reilly
The strikes, which hit a five-story apartment building, a shopping mall and buildings used by European governments, were the largest on the Ukrainian capital since the Alaska summit.

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Why Ukraine Is Allowing More Young Men to Leave the Country

Par :Maria Varenikova
For three years of war, the country has banned young men from leaving the country once they turn 18, prompting an exodus of teenage boys. Now it is raising that age limit to 23.

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Ukrainian military recruiters in Kyiv last year check to see if civilian men have updated their contact information with the Ukrainian draft office. Since February 2022, men between the ages of 18 and 60 have been barred from leaving the country.
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