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Pentagon: US to supply NASAMS air defense systems to Ukraine.

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"I do not have the detailed information on the specifics of the contracting process but we are already in the process of procuring the system," a senior U.S. defense official said. The date of the delivery was not disclosed. NASAMS surface-to-air missiles can hit targets at a range of up to 180 kilometers and at a height of up to 21 kilometers.

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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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