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Ukraine Races to Forge New Army Ahead of Offensive

Kyiv is training military recruits to take part in imminent move on Russian forces

and Nikita Nikolaienko

May 19, 2023 5:30 am ET

Ukraine and Russia have been engaged in grueling fighting for months over the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. WSJ explains how the city turned into the bloodiest and one of the longest battles of the war in Ukraine. Photo illustration: Adam Adada

In a valley far from the front lines last week, several men practiced dropping a half-full bottle of water from a small aerial drone, as though it were a grenade. Others fired rifles at targets 100 yards away. A third group set off for a trek through the surrounding hills, which burst with white and yellow flowers.

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