fortification

Example Sentences

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The allegation is that Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko and other key ministers and officials received payments from contractors building fortifications against Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.

From BBC

“Hamas’s internal fortifications, they remain as they were,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

These new fortifications carved in the Ukrainian dirt chart a deteriorating situation here in Donetsk.

From BBC

But Ukraine is estimated to have held onto about 30% of Donetsk, including several key cities and fortifications, at a cost of tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives.

From BBC

"If we withdraw from the Donbas today - our fortifications, our terrain, the heights we control - we will clearly open a bridgehead for the Russians to prepare an offensive," he said.

From BBC