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UK to provide Armed Forces with 25,000 sets of extreme cold weather clothing by mid-December

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The U.K. will also send a further 12,000 extreme cold weather sleeping kits and 150 heated tents, "ensuring troops are able to operate and survive the plunging temperatures in Ukraine," British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Nov. 9.

"We must continue backing the Ukrainian people in their resistance to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's brutality," Sunak said.

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The two leaders began their meeting at the U.S. military Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage at around 11:30 a.m. local time. The event will mark their first face-to-face talks of Trump's second term and their first meeting in six years, as well as Putin's first visit to U.S. soil in a decade.

The Kyiv Independent visited the front-line city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast to hear from its residents what they think about the prospects of land swaps between Ukraine and Russia ahead of the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska.

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