The moral here is very simple: never, under any circumstances, do business with Russia. It is a terrorist state where every foreigner is a potential hostage.
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Raids on Dec 7: Russian Passports Found at Ukrainian Orthodox Clergy
During the Dec 7 raids of the Moscow Patriarchate's Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the SBU also found Russian passports of Kherson priests and propagandist literature.
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Bout returns: Russia exchanges American basketball player for arms dealer
Viktor Bout, one of the world's largest arms dealers, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison in the US in 2012 for illegal arms trafficking and supporting terrorism, has returned to Russia. To free him, the Kremlin took an American basketball player hostage, for whom Bout was eventually exchanged.
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Bakhmut frontline static despite winter advantages and disadvantages for digging in.
The frontline in Bakhmut has barely moved in months. Winter has advantages: hard ground's easier to advance on. But disadvantages. "The ground is cold and hard, so even when [Russians] take new forward positions, they have difficulty digging in deep enough to shelter themselves."
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Wagner’s symbolic Bakhmut offensive lacks strategy, say Ukrainian analysts
Ukrainian soldiers and military analysts say there seems to be neither strategy nor logic to the Russian offensive in Bakhmut beyond symbolism. Leading the Russian charge there is the infamous Wagner mercenary group.
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Bakhmout, a war like a meat grinder
In Bakhmut, everyone describes the fight as a meat grinder. Russian troops shell the Ukrainians, charge across no man’s land, get mowed down, and do it all over again. "It’s like a conveyor belt. For what? A fucking meter of our land," a soldier said.
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Bakhmut: Ukraine’s frontline city devastated by relentless Russian attacks
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: I returned to Bakhmut, the frontline city that's now the bloody focus of Russia's ground war in Ukraine. Relentless airstrikes and artillery attacks have destroyed much of the city. It's a ghost town on its way to becoming a wasteland. -
Intense fighting in Bakhmut recalling trench warfare
Ukrainian troops described the intensity of the fighting in and around Bakhmut as greater than anything they've experienced anywhere in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Much is reminiscent of WWI-style trench warfare.
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Body at Bakhmut Hospital After Shelling
Bakhmut A car drives into the hospital yard. The door opens. A body covered with an old towel. The blood-stained stretcher is placed next to other bodies brought in earlier. He was alive an hour ago. Perhaps he was calling his wife or mother. Perhaps he has kids. libkos
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Ukrainian troops attack Russian positions
General Staff: Ukrainian military strikes 8 Russian control points, 2 ammunition depots. Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military targeted 11 areas of concentration of Russian personnel, weapons and military equipment, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said.