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US Defense Department: Nearly 80% of howitzers US committed to Ukraine already in combat.

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A senior U.S. defense official said 85 of the 108 M777 howitzers the U.S. has committed over the last three military assistance packages to Ukraine are "with the Ukrainian military and providing long range fire capability," according to a May 26 background briefing published on the State Department's website.

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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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