A soldier is in a tank's hatch as the 1st Tank Battalion of Ukraine's 5th Heavy Mechanized Brigade, equipped with Leopard 1A5 tanks, serves in the Kurakhove and Pokrovsk directions in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on February 9, 2025. (Photo by Oleksandr Klymenko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto)

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