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The Independent: UK to provide Ukraine with long-range missiles after Russia strikes Kyiv.

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British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace made the announcement that the U.K. will send an unspecified number of M270 launchers, capable of firing rockets up to 80 kilometers, making it the longest reaching weapon at Ukraine's disposal. The decision was made after Kyiv was struck on June 5 for the first time since April.

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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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