Ukraine Latest: US to Give Patriot System Training in Oklahoma

A partially destroyed residential building reflected in a car window in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Jan. 7.

Photographer: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images

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The Pentagon said 90 to 100 Ukrainian soldiers will come to a US Army base in Oklahoma for training starting next week on operating and maintaining the complicated Patriot air defense system the US is providing.

In eastern Ukraine, Russian mercenary forces mounted a concentrated assault on a key frontline town, a siege that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his troops were holding off in an “extremely difficult” military exchange.