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Putin orders Ukraine border tightening as drones hit Russia

In this handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, A Russian military Inokhodets (Ambler) drone is seen before a mission at a base in an undisclosed location. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) FILE - Ukrainian servicemen of the Prince Roman the Great 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade fire a Soviet era Grad multiple rocket launcher at Russian positions in the Kharkiv area, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. Grueling artillery battles have stepped up in recent weeks in the vicinity of Kupiansk, a strategic town on the eastern edge of Kharkiv province by the banks of the Oskil River as Russian attacks intensifying in a push to capture the entire industrial heartland known as the Donbas, which includes the Donetsk and the Luhansk provinces. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File) This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows a Beriev A-50 early warning aircraft, center, at Machulishchy Air Base near Minsk, Belarus, Feb. 19, 2023. Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, appear to show a Beriev A-50 early warning aircraft was parked at a Belarus air base just before a claimed attack by partisans there amid Moscow's war on Ukraine. The Associated Press has been unable to independently confirm the claimed attack, which both Belarus and Russia have yet to acknowledge. (Planet Labs PBC via AP) FILE - A woman holds a piece of shrapnel standing in the rubble of a house where Ukrainian servicemen were sheltering which destroyed by a Russian S-300 rocket strike, in Kupiansk, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. Grueling artillery battles have stepped up in recent weeks in the vicinity of Kupiansk, a strategic town on the eastern edge of Kharkiv province by the banks of the Oskil River as Russian attacks intensifying in a push to capture the entire industrial heartland known as the Donbas, which includes the Donetsk and the Luhansk provinces. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Putin orders Ukraine border tightening as drones hit Russia