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U.S. to fund $89 million demining project in Ukraine.

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The U.S. State Department said that it would fund the deployment of about 100 demining teams and support a large-scale train and equip project to strengthen Ukraine's demining capacity. “Landmines, unexploded ordnance, and other hazards block farmland, delay reconstruction, keep people from returning, and kill and maim innocent Ukrainians,” U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink said.

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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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