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Defence firms in Ukraine make new weapons much faster and cheaper than most Western companies

Most are too expensive, and irrelevant to the kind of war Russia is waging

Casualties litter the Donbas amid a bloody Kremlin push

The country’s defensive cordon could yet be bargained away

A growing group that is changing society

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, says survival on the front line is anything but simple