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Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security
How Putin failed to protect the Kremlin as Ukraine exposes Russia’s major strategic weakness
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“The Kremlin needs to allocate significant manpower and resources to protect its borders because its borders are not defended.”
New Ukrainian offensives, such as Operation Spider's web, expose “major strategic weaknesses” in Russia, as the Kremlin sweeps the fallout “under the rug”, says Kateryna Stepanenko, Russia Deputy Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War.
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