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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko expressed concern for the future of democracy in Ukraine under President Volodymyr Zelensky and pronounced himself unsurprised that support for the president is falling in the country in a series of interviews published this weekend. Klitschko, a former heavyweight boxing champion whose name has been floated as presidential candidate material for nearly a decade, lamented to the German newspaper Der Spiegel on Friday that he had not had a single phone call with Zelensky, despite being the mayor of the nation’s capital during wartime. He told the newspaper he was concerned that Ukraine would soon “no...

Ukrainian soldiers told the Kyiv Independent they're worried about running out of combat-capable people to continue fighting against Russia as the war rages on.In a report published on Thursday, multiple soldiers fighting in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk Oblast said that it was becoming increasingly difficult to make a major breakthrough in the area.While Russia continues to send ammunition and large numbers of troops to replenish the front lines, Ukrainian soldiers said they were worried about how long they will be able to keep up with the pace of the war."If combat-capable people like us run out, we could only be replaced...