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How Putin recycles his war strategies

Oxana Evdokimova | Janina Semenova
February 16, 2024

Much of what Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine, he has done before in Chechnya. The Russian president's first war can teach us a lot about the possible future of Ukraine.

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