Documents in an abandoned Russian military base in the small riverside town of Balakliia in eastern Ukraine yielded thousands of pages of information, detailing the inner workings of the Russian military and shedding new light on events leading up to Russia’s chaotic retreat from Ukraine’s northeast, according to Reuters. “It was horrible, scary — not knowing what was going on, what to expect next,” said Albina Strilets, a 33-year-old logistics coordinator for Ukrainian emergency services.
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