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Three Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in the Donbass.

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Five Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in battles along the front line in the past day, and Russia-backed forces launched 45 attacks on Ukrainian positions, bringing the fighting back up to a level it was before recent weeks of international talks on Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin decreed that posthumous awards for valor should be given to two women medics killed and a colonel killed in Aleppo. The State Duma has drafted a budget that will draw heavily from the Reserve and National Welfare funds.

Lawyers at Team 29, a group of lawyers and journalists defending freedom of information in Russia, have discovered five cases of Russian women imprisoned on charges of treason for text messages they sent related to the Russian military and Georgia.

The casualties continue to mount, with another Ukrainian soldier killed yesterday.

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The war in Ukraine, having cost more than 9,000 lives since it begun in the spring of 2014, has now entered a relatively stagnant phase. No major offensives have occurred since Russian regular forces assaulted the city of Debaltsevo in February, 2015. Along the static front lines, warfare more closely resembles that of the First […]

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