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Interpreting the First Few Days of the Russo-Ukrainian War

War on the Rocks

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Do Russians Really Want to Invade Ukranian Civilians?

I've seen 98 tanks simply stopped by civilians in this war, going down the road. Young russian soldiers are not going to fire ukranians. The half of them don't know what they're doing. I thank its a very different story with chechen troops. That's a set of fighters that t have been brought in to engage in in the viciousness of urban warfare. And i've seen quite a few of those kind of troops being brought in, particularly in the last two days.

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