The war in Ukraine explained: More from our experts
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Russia's Response to the Ukranian Invasion
From a russian pespective, it's been very unexpected. If you look at their writings on future war, the changing character of conflict, this is lutely not the kind of conflict that they foresaw. Ando i think we saw in the initial days of the invasion, when they sought to use missile strikes against ucranian cities and backed up by a show of force. The hope was that that would lead to a very swift ucranians ender. Now, obviously, that's clearly not what happened.
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