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A couple of days ago, the full-scale war in Ukraine reached 1,000 days. For months, it was a grind.

Russia slowly, painfully, winning territory off of Ukraine, which is outgunned, outmanned,

but nowhere near giving in.

But over the past week, the fighting on the ground has become much more intense.

This week, Ukraine used an American-made long-range missile to strike Russian territory.

That's never happened before.

The Ministry of Defense saying attack of missiles targeted the Bryansk region in the early hours.

Moscow says five of the missiles were shot down, one was damaged.

There are now thousands of North Korean troops on the ground.

Russia's Korsk region, where Ukrainian troops have been fighting to hold land, they seized at the end of the summer.

Now they say they're not just fighting Russian soldiers, but North Koreans as well.

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