It is Kyiv, not Moscow, that is feeling the pressure as the war drags on with no end in sight.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, hands out medals to servicemen at a hospital in the Zaporizhzhia region, August 2023.
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Drones are both a destructive battlefield weapon and deliver a psychological boost when used on Russian cities.
Ukrainian soldiers on a Swedish CV90 infantry fighting vehicle at their positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on June 25.
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