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UK Defense Ministry: Russia ‘highly likely’ preparing to try to deploy multiple reserve units to Donbas.

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Generating and deploying reserve units to the front is “likely to become increasingly critical to the outcome of the war,” on both sides, the U.K Defense Ministry said on June 22. According to the ministry, the casualty rate of Russian proxies in the occupied Donetsk region is equivalent to around 55% of its original force, “which highlights the extraordinary attrition Russian and pro-Russian forces are suffering in the Donbas.”

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At NATO's Aurora 2026 military exercises in Sweden, a group of Ukrainian drone pilots was tasked with playing the role of attackers. The Kyiv Independent's Francis Farrell spoke with drone pilots from Ukraine's 20th National Guard "Lubart" Brigade, part of the 1st Azov Corps, shortly after they returned from Sweden.

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