Thursday, January 5, 2023

Day 314 of Putin's BLITZKRIEG of Ukraine ("Nearing the 1-year mark")


Top headline:  TIME
Bottom headline:  New York Times
As winter sets in and the one-year anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine looms next month, Mr. Putin has dropped his earlier efforts to shield the public from the pain of war and is now seeking to prepare Russians, and his own military, for a long fight ahead. 
“He’s gotten a lot less relaxed, a lot less optimistic,” said Tatiana Stanovaya, a Russian analyst who studies Mr. Putin for her political analysis firm R.Politik. “You can sense a certain anxiety, a desire to mobilize all possible forces to achieve his goals.”

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Day 281.  (12/8/2022)

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