Coverage dated June 19, 2024

Russia obliterates front-line Ukraine towns by retrofitting bombs and expanding its air base network

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Russia is intensifying its use of cheap glide bombs to lay waste to cities in eastern Ukraine. The latest generation of the retrofitted weapons have devastated Kharkiv, Avdiivka, Chasiv Yar and Vovchansk.

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  1. WDIO Duluth

    Russia obliterates front-line Ukraine towns by retrofitting bombs and expanding its air base network (opens WDIO Duluth)

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    Russia is intensifying its use of cheap glide bombs to lay waste to cities in eastern Ukraine. The latest generation of the retrofitted weapons have devastated Kharkiv, Avdiivka, Chasiv Yar and Vovchansk.

  2. NPR

    Russia wages a scorched-earth war in Ukraine with retrofitted bombs and new airstrips (opens NPR)

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    Russia has accelerated its destruction of Ukraine's front-line cities in 2024 to a scale previously unseen in the war using glide bombs and an expanding network of airstrips just across the border.

  3. Minneapolis Star Tribune

    Russia obliterates Ukraine's front-line towns faster with hacked bombs and expanded air base network (opens Minneapolis Star Tribune)

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    The first shock wave shattered aisles stacked almost to the ceiling with home improvement products. The next Russian bomb streaked down like a comet seconds later, unleashing flames that left the megastore an ashen shell.

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