Death toll soars in Russian strike on Kyiv; Germany to send air defenses
As the grim recovery operations continued, Germany announced it would provide two Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine in the coming days and that Berlin would be at the top of a list to receive new-model replacements from the United States.
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