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Moscow’s troops keep pressing around the Donbas town of Kurakhove, where a dam was blown up and the terrain is soon expected to be flooded, impeding movement of both sides.
The issues arose from outstanding debts from leased foreign aircraft, where payments had to be made in Russian rubles after 2022 and were unaccepted by foreign lessors.