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Pentagon: ‘Russia adds 11 battalion tactical groups in Ukraine.’

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In a statement on April 18, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed that there are now 76 Russian battalion tactical groups in the Donbas region and in southeast Ukraine (up from 65 last week). Besides those, there are about 22 groups north of Ukraine that are likely being resupplied and refitted, the official said.

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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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