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Stoltenberg: NATO to send drone defense to Ukraine in coming days

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Oct. 18 that the alliance will provide Ukraine with anti-drone air defense systems to defend itself from Iranian-made drones, reported Reuters. On Oct. 17, Russia attacked Kyiv for the first time using Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones, killing five people.

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Russia failed to break Ukraine’s army on the battlefield, and now it’s trying to do it through a peace plan that would cap Ukraine’s forces at 600,000. Some argue that Ukraine would shrink its army — currently estimated at about 800,000 — after the war anyway.

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