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The Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense is preparing for the night as if for a battle. In a military base one hundred kilometers southeast of kyiv, around ten soldiers stand at attention. The sun has just set and the commander, Artem, delivers his instructions: each man is assigned a weapon, a vehicle and a post until morning. Artem, 58, studied at the military academy during the USSR and returned to the army only in 2022. Today he commands several mobile groups of the 242 territorial defense battalion - nearly a hundred men divided into small units, responsible for tracking down and shooting down drones. The soldiers break ranks and, as an aside, Artem explains how kyiv is defended today: light and fast, the mobile units constitute the first and largest of the "rays", or lines of defense, which encircle the capital. Each ray must degrade the Russian arrivals as much as possible until the…
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