Tag: Ukraine and Syria

Ukraine Live Day 606: International Concern Over Russian Thermobaric Rocket Launcher Seen In Donbass

October 16, 2015

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Putin Is Turning Up The Heat In Syria To Cover Turning It Down In Ukraine

September 22, 2015

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, September 20 – Faced with ever greater economic problems at home and isolation abroad, Vladimir Putin needs to freeze the conflict in the Donbass in such a way that Russians won’t begin asking questions about why he went there in the first place, Aleksandr Rabinovich says. And consequently, he is turning up the heat […]

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