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A tough winter for Ukraine as Russia exploits the cold

The Real Story

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Is the War Getting More Personal?

The last nine months have hardened Ukrainian sense of national identity, it's turned attitudes against Russia. The more Russian soldiers get killed, the more emotional the response is inside the country. I see from my conversations, there was a military and security services that in the beginning, they questioned why Putin decided to invade. But now, they just accepted that attack was, and the war was inevitable and Putin was right. He started first, that gave him some advantage and all of that. People want to try to find a place in this new reality. So they are adjusting psychological admits that they are trying to justify what is going on. And unfortunately, it doesn't give a lot of hope. I

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