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Russian President Vladimir Putin has never gotten over it. That, more than anything, underlies the current crisis in which Putin has moved nearly 100,000 troops to Ukraine’s frontier, raising ...
Since Vladimir Putin's decision to launch his so-called "special military operation" Russia has sustained heavy losses on the battlefield Russian towns and cities come under regular drone attack
The Duma, Russia’s parliament, has passed a bill making it a crime, punishable by up to 15 years in jail, to spread what it called “fake news” about the Russian military.
On 25 March, the leader of the Russian military's General Staff Main Operational Directorate, Sergei Rudskoi , stated that the first stage of the operation had "generally been accomplished", and the "combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (was) considerably reduced", allowing Russia "to focus our core efforts on achieving the main goal ...
At the end of 2014, Putin approved a revised national military doctrine, which listed NATO's military buildup near the Russian borders as the top military threat. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] In late June 2015, while on a trip to Estonia, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said the U.S. would deploy heavy weapons, including tanks, armoured vehicles and ...
In the essay, Putin argues that Russians and Ukrainians, along with Belarusians, are one people, belonging to what has historically been known as the triune Russian nation. [5] To support the claim, he describes in length his views on the history of Russia and Ukraine, [6] concluding that Russians and Ukrainians share a common heritage and ...
But Moscow's military demonstrations abroad have come against the backdrop of its setbacks in Ukraine; what Russian President Vladimir Putin expected to be a swift and decisive victory has become ...
A survey from June 22 reported that only 2% of Poles held a favourable view of Russia, while 97% were unfavourable, the most negative views of Russia among all countries included in that survey. The 2% view was a collapse from previous polls, which for the prior two decades had about 20–40% of Poles expressing a favourable view. [197]