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Missiles rain down on key cities as Ukraine warns of threat to hydroelectric dam near Kherson

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What Does It Feel Like to Be a Soldier in a Cold Winter?

Winter is a balance between are you fighting to survive or surviving to fight? That's it in a nutshell. Everything slows down depending on the meteorological conditions that aircraft either can't fly because there's too much and the horse frost seems to remember the term was on the blades of helicopters and round engine intakes. So yes, very dangerous. Just all kinds of operations are harder. Conversely, if it's one of those cold, hard, bright blue sky, winter days then actually it can make flying a lot easier. And I think this this conflict, although we saw drones, particularly the Barakta, really come to the fore in the 2020, as well as on Armenia conflict, they

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