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Kiev should focus on its counteroffensive instead of piecemeal strikes behind Russian lines, US officials have told the network Ukraine should abandon its targeting of Crimea and focus on breaking through Russian lines instead, US military officials told CNN on Friday. Kiev has stepped up its attacks on the Russian peninsula in recent weeks, with…

Washington has refrained from calling the change in government a ‘coup’, which would require it to cut military ties The US is set to evacuate two drone bases in Niger as a precaution under the new military government, Air Force Gen. James Hecker told reporters on Friday in Washington.