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Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told AFP last week the West was not pressuring Kyiv

  Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told AFP last week the West was not pressuring Kyiv   post faster gains, and that Ukrainian forces would recapture all occupied territory, making clear: "we don't care how long it takes". But reports in US media suggest that there is growing consternation in Washington over the pace of gains as well as Ukraine's battlefield strategy, fanning reservations over how long Kyiv's most staunch ally can keep up support. And newly-reported US intelligence estimates show the staggering cost for Ukraine with some 70,000 military personnel killed and even more injured. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu this month weighed in, claiming Ukraine's resources and offensive potential were exhausted. Mykola Bielieskov, a research fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies in Kyiv, said given Russian defensive preparations and artillery firepower, the offensive was always going to be long and hard. "I don't understand wha
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'It's dragged on': Ukrainians confront slow war gains

  'It's dragged on': Ukrainians confront slow war gains Rusted Russian tanks, which the Kremlin had hoped would parade victorious through Kyiv days after it invaded Ukraine, have instead been lined up as war trophies ahead of Ukraine's independence day. Hanging over the celebrations is the spectre of a grinding offensive taking longer than hoped to liberate occupied territory, spurring doubt in the West over its political and military backing for Ukraine. Anna, a 35-year-old resident of Kyiv who declined to give her last name, said the sight of the mangled Russian hardware filled her with rage but hope, too, that Ukrainian forces would ultimately boot out Moscow's army. "It's clear that it's not happening as soon as anyone would expect. Maybe somewhere in the West, where people aren't clued in, they think it's a reality show," she told AFP. Kyiv launched its counteroffensive in June after stockpiling Western-supplied weapons, building up as
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