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Mansur Mirovalev

BIZARRE: Switch to defence ukraine faces difficult 2024 amid aid arms setbacks - What They Never Told You

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House, on Tuesday, December 12, 2023, in Washington [Evan Vucci/AP Photo]

Kyiv, Ukraine – Whenever Svitlana Matvienko hears the wailing of air raid sirens, she goes down to the nearby subterranean shopping mall.

There, a barista she’s on a first-name basis with gets her a large latte, and Matvienko clacks away on her tiny silver laptop, sitting next to several dozen others waiting out the air raid.

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