UK pledges $193 million in Ukraine aid, hits Russia with new sanctions.

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New UK Foreign Secretary arrived in Kyiv with a package of aid for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia https://ift.tt/kpwHjqU #liga #news

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Specifically, in our column, on the march, an MT-LB caught fire on its own and was abandoned along the way. There was simply no way to fix it – nothing to fix it with. And there was no reason to.

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The train would have arrived with pieces of minced meat and bones on its wheels if the fighters hadn't been separated. The song 'Burning Arrow' by the group 'Aria' is about our train. Moreover, at each station, several people fled the train and disappeared.

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"The entire set of equipment of the tank battalion and most of the BMPs [were lost]. So we were told, 'don't be afraid, you will be given everything.' And they gave me an infantry fighting vehicle and an MT-LB from the Second Chechen War…"

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Some was abandoned to the delight of the Ukrainians during the breakthrough through the Sumy region towards Kyiv in February-March 2022, but most were lost in battle.

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"And I only began to study harder, which cannot be said about my fellow soldiers. They were wonderful in their alcoholic fatalism: 'We were ordered to die – then we will die.' And they missed what little training they were provided for the sake of an extra bottle of beer."

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The mobilization followed Russia's recent massive defeat and heavy losses in the Kharkiv region, leaving the *mobiks* with mixed feelings of terror and euphoria. They drowned their sorrows in copious amounts of alcohol as they awaited deployment to Ukraine.

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While the others were drinking until they were squealing like pigs, I was studying in a group of medical orderlies under the guidance of skilled comrades from the Special Operations Forces. This training proved invaluable to me later on.

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The author of the 'Vault No. 8' Telegram channel is an active frontline Russian soldier and one of the original September 2022 'mobiks'. He claims to be the only one from his cohort still alive after this long without being killed or removed from the war due to injury.

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