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Tag: USSR (Former Soviet Union)
Russia Planned a Major Military Overhaul. Ukraine Shows the Result.
Army vehicles were so decrepit that repair crews were stationed roughly every 15 miles. Some officers were so…
Russia’s Grave Miscalculation: Ukrainians Would Collaborate
KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine — The solicitation to commit treason came to Oleksandr Vilkul on the second day of…
For a Ukrainian Poet, Putin’s War Is All Too Familiar
LVIV, Ukraine — At 83, no longer a young poet, Ihor Kalynets knows something of life under Russia’s…
Russia’s War in Ukraine: This Is How World War III Begins
The usual date given for the start of World War II is Sept. 1, 1939, when Hitler invaded…
Biden Targets Russia With Strategy of Containment, Updated for a New Era
Mr. Biden emerged from the meeting offering some professional respect for Mr. Putin as an adversary. For his…
Russians Now See a New Side to Putin: Dragging Them Into War
MOSCOW — Russians thought they knew their president.They were wrong.And by Thursday, it appeared too late to do…
In Ukraine Crisis, the Looming Threat of a New Cold War
MOSCOW — Vladimir Pozner was an English-language Soviet propaganda editor in Moscow in 1962, a job that gave…