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Kyiv CNN —The air at the Ukrainian military recruitment office where a 30-year-old hairdresser is being interviewed is filled with anxiety. “The time has come,” he told CNN. “The desire to fight the enemy is very important, in addition to training, equipment and preparedness,” he told CNN. If shelling starts on the frontline, I think I will be confused and will only create problems for others,” he told CNN. Andrii Demchenko, the spokesperson for the Border Guard Service of Ukraine, told CNN his officers detain people trying to cross out of Ukraine on daily basis.

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☆ Ukrainians on pickup trucks are using machine guns designed in WWI to stop Russian drones
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A Ukrainian unit is using century-old US guns to target Russian drones and planes. One unit is using cheaper M2 Brownings, which were developed in 1918, the last year of World War I. AdvertisementUkrainians are putting machine guns first designed in the US at the end of World War I on the back of pickup trucks to try to shoot down Russian drones and spy planes. Soldiers in Ukraine's 117th Territorial Defense Brigade are using guns, including the M2 Browning, to try to take down Russia's Shahed drones, the Kyiv Independent reported. The M2 was used by American forces in World War II, and is still used by some today, but it was initially developed in 1918, the last year of World War I.

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☆ Video shows Ukrainian forces dual wielding World War I-era machine guns out of the back of a pickup truck
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Photos show Ukrainian forces mounted WWI-era machine guns on a pickup truck. One video captures the moment troops used the antique guns to fire at what appear to be modern drones. AdvertisementUkrainian forces have repeatedly put machine guns with a history dating back to just before World War I into action in their war against Russia. New photos show a pair of the guns mounted onto a pickup truck while a video shows Ukrainians firing them at what observers suspect are Russian drones. The footage shows Ukrainian troops shooting at suspected drones in the sky, aiming the machine guns and firing from the pickup.

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☆ Ukraine's troops work to advance on Russian-held side of key river after gaining footholds
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Ukraine's establishment of footholds on the Russian-held bank of the Dnieper represents a small but potentially significant strategic advance in the midst of a war largely at a standstill. The General Staff of Ukraine's armed forces said its troops there had repelled 12 attacks by the Russian army between Friday and Saturday. In response, the Russian military used "tactical aviation," including Iranian-made Shahed exploding drones, to try to pin down Ukraine's troops, Humeniuk said. Elsewhere, air defenses shot down 29 out of 38 Shahed drones launched against Ukraine, military officials reported. "The first priority of our budget — local budgets and the central budget — should be the army."

Persons: Natalia Humeniuk, Humeniuk, Maria Barbash Organizations: 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade, General, Southern Operational Command, Armed Forces Locations: Kherson, Ukraine, footholds, Russian, Russia, Crimea, Kyiv

☆ Ukraine looks to be gambling on a hard fight across a key river to kick-start its struggling counteroffensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ukraine's troops have been conducting operations on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River across from Kherson. AdvertisementUkrainian troops have crossed the Dnipro River, a natural barrier that has been working to Russia's advantage, and appear to be making a risky play to kick-start a struggling counteroffensive. Ukrainian troops hunker in hastily made trenches, facing stiff defenses and overwhelming numbers of Russian forces, recent reporting indicates. As the AP noted in a report Wednesday, Ukraine could possibly outflank Russia and relieve pressure on Ukrainian forces in Zaporizhzhia to achieve a breakthrough. One private in Ukraine's 38th Marine Brigade who'd been across the river since the start of November said Ukraine's forces were vastly outnumbered.

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☆ Ukraine war live updates: Russia says 'hell' awaits Ukrainians after confirming they've crossed Dnipro river into occupied territory
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine reported Tuesday that its forces had established a foothold on the eastern bank of the river. The announcement could herald the start of an advance toward Russian-occupied Crimea, with Ukraine saying on Wednesday that it was starting to push back Russian forces. The Kherson area, in southern Ukraine, is partially occupied by Russian forces after an offensive to take the city of Kherson last year prompted Russian forces to withdraw to the eastern bank of the river. Russian forces are pummeling Ukrainian units that have have crossed over the Dnipro river to the Russian-occupied left (or eastern) bank of the river in Kherson, a Russian-installed official said Wednesday. "Additional forces have now been brought up," he said, claiming that Ukrainian forces were blocked in the village of Krynki where "a fiery hell" awaited them.

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☆ Over 2 dozen Russian soldiers were killed in friendly fire near the Donetsk airport when their chaotic retreat was mistaken for an attack, Ukrainian MP says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Ukraine MP said 27 Russian soldiers were killed by friendly fire during a botched retreat. The soldiers were fleeing positions in Donetsk when they were mistaken for enemy troops, per the MP. According to Mysiagin, the Russian forces assumed their troops were Ukrainians attempting to recapture territory near the Donetsk airport. This wouldn't have been the first time Russian forces gunned down their own troops. Kherson said he saw Russian forces firing rockets at the battlefield just as their soldiers were starting to retreat.

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☆ Ukrainian soldiers detail desperate maneuvers by Russian forces firing on their own troops: 'They buried quite a lot of their own guys'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

NYT reported Russian forces are performing desperate maneuvers against Ukraine's counteroffensive. "They buried quite a lot of their own guys," a Ukrainian soldier told the Times. As the invasion continues into its 18th month, incidents of friendly fire among Russian troops aren't new. Multiple other reports have documented Russian troops being plagued by friendly fire as they advanced in Ukraine, though the Kremlin rarely acknowledges these incidents. The Russian news agency Tass reported on one friendly fire incident involving Ukrainian troops in December, though there have been few additional reports of Ukrainian soldiers firing at each other.

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☆ Ukraine's river raiders defy mosquito-infested bogs and the fear of being drowned by their body armor to harass Russian invaders
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | Julian Kossoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A unit commander told the Kyiv Independent that they needed more powerful boats. "We attack them where they least expect us," the military unit commander told the outlet. A map showing where the city of Kherson is in relation to the Dnipro river. But it added that it was "unclear if Russian forces possess the mechanized reserves necessary to do so." The unit commander told the outlet the river raiders Ukraine need more powerful boats.

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Three Russian attack helicopters swooped in low over the city of Kreminna, strafing Ukrainian frontline positions just outside the city. Russian drones circled overhead while Moscow’s ground forces fired heavy machine guns to flush out Ukrainians from foxholes hidden in the dappled light of the pine forest. As exploding artillery shells shook the ground around him on Saturday morning, Vlad, a 27-year-old Ukrainian drone operator, spotted a Russian armored personnel carrier bringing more troops to the battle. “They are constantly attacking us,” said Lt. Col. Matviychuk Oleh, a 49-year-old battalion commander with Ukraine’s 100th Territorial Defense Brigade. So far they have been able to prevent a major Ukrainian breakthrough.

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☆ Ukraine reclaimed an occupied village during its counteroffensive with far fewer troops than Russia, The New York Times reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

NYT reported that one village, Neskuchne, was liberated with roughly 70 Ukrainian troops. According to the Times, Russia also has a contingent of troops known as the Storm Z unit that consists of former inmates. Ukrainian soldiers told the newspaper that reclaiming the village was a slow and painstaking process. According to the Times, Ukrainian soldiers first moved in on Neskuchne by foot before carrying out an artillery attack with small drones. More than a dozen Russian soldiers were killed and wounded, and six Ukrainian soldiers died, according to the report.

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☆ Ukrainian pilots describe the fear of being outgunned by Russia's air force and implore the West to give them F-16 jet fighters, in CNN interview
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ukrainian pilots implored the West to supply them with F-16 fighter jets, in a new CNN interview. In a recent interview with CNN, a pilot in the Ukrainian air force said the country's aged Soviet-era Su-25s can't compete with Russia's Su-35s, their radars, and long-range missiles. However, a deputy battalion commander highlighted that strong Russian air force power has made it difficult for Ukrainian forces to advance. "We try to maneuver to avoid them"Two US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons US Air Force photo by Tech. A Ukrainian pilot exits a MiG-29 fighter jet at an airbase outside of Kyiv, November 23, 2016.

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“The main purpose of this aircraft is to support our ground forces at the front,” he explains. “I think we increase the morale of our ground forces too.”One of the main issues Kyiv’s ground forces have faced as the counteroffensive gets underway is Russian air power holding them back. "Juice" says the Ukrainian air force would be much more capable of protecting advancing ground forces if it had better aircraft. But the US now says it will train Ukrainian pilots on the aircraft, and the UK and Denmark have been pressing for more. But while Russia maintains technological superiority in the air, it’ll be very difficult for Ukrainian pilots to push Moscow’s pilots out of their skies.

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☆ Ukraine’s counteroffensive is now underway. Here’s what’s happened so far
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Tim Lister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian forces has not yet gained the momentum that some overly optimistic observers anticipated. Still it is a formidable task: in the south especially, Ukrainian forces must conduct a frontal assault against deeply prepared defensive positions, and critically they lack air superiority. It’s worth noting that Russian units in one heavily-contested area – belonging to the 58th Combined Arms Army – are among the most effective in the military. Ukrainian units in the area have had to adapt, often breaking down into smaller groups that are less easily detected. Dmytro Kuleba, Ukrainian Foreign Minister, has said that if the offensive succeeds in expelling Russian forces from Ukrainian land, “It will be the last.

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☆ Ukraine Keeps Up Defense of Bakhmut as Zelensky Lauds Soldier Executed by Russians
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Yaroslav Trofimov | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine’s forces continued to defend the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut on Monday as President Volodymyr Zelensky posthumously gave the nation’s highest award to a Ukrainian soldier who had been filmed saying “Glory to Ukraine” before he was executed by Russian troops. After initial errors, Ukrainian authorities identified the soldier as Oleksandr Matsiyevsky, a sniper in the 119th Territorial Defense Brigade from the northern region of Chernihiv. A video released by a unit affiliated with Russia’s Wagner paramilitary organization showed him smoking next to what seemed like a freshly dug grave.

☆ 'My call sign is 'Grandad.'' The retirees who are frontline fighters for Ukraine against the Russian invaders
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Some volunteer fighters in Ukraine are considerably older than the average age of a typical soldier. 63-year-old Leonid Onyschenko, for example, is fighting for Ukraine near the city of Bakhmut. While the classic image of a soldier in battle evokes a fit young person with a chiseled jawline, the diverse volunteer fighters in Ukraine defy this expectation. The Territorial Defense Forces (TDF) — a volunteer military reserve — said that Onyshchenko had been serving the country for nine years since Russia's invasion and illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. Many of the older volunteers the news outlet spoke to appeared eager to stay in eastern Ukraine at the time.

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