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Pentagon: Putin two weeks behind plans in Donbas and southern Ukraine.

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A senior U.S. Department of Defense official said at a closed briefing for journalists on May 10 that Russia's current position is about two weeks behind schedule of "what [Putin] would like to see," RFE/RL reports. The official also said that while Russia's military continues to gather forces, it is suffering losses and has not achieved any of Putin's major goals.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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