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 netting to protect against FPV kamikaze drones in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, on April 4, 2025.
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Explainer: What Russia could achieve in Ukraine by Trump's 50-day deadline

by Asami Terajima

U.S. President Donald Trump gave a 50-day ultimatum to Russia to end the war in Ukraine, promising to impose harsh sanctions otherwise. Experts who spoke with the Kyiv Independent, however, say that Russia can take advantage of the once again extended deadline and scale up its summer offensive, ongoing since May. Russia could realistically advance closer to Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka in the eastern Donetsk Oblast by trying to encircle them as much as possible in the next few months, but the c

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