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Reuters: US may send HAWK air defense systems to Ukraine.

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The U.S. is considering providing Ukraine with HAWK air defense equipment to help it defend against Russian attacks, Reuters reported on Oct. 25, citing two unnamed U.S. officials. The HAWK interceptor missiles would be an upgrade to the smaller and shorter-range Stinger missile systems that are already in use by Ukraine’s Armed Forces, according to Reuters.

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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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