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The Russian Military Leader's Comments on the Invasion of Eastern Ukraine
He was saying this is purely self-interest. This is purely greed. There's no reason to fight this war. And he accompanied that by saying, you know, how badly Russian soldiers had been treated and died unnecessarily. I think it put him in tune with the Russian army in a way that maybe the Russian military leadership is not. The extraordinary moment yesterday was when he was sitting in the courtyard in Rostov with the leaders of the Southern military district kind of chatting away.