When Russian troops started ‘military exercises’ on Ukraine’s borders, those of us living in Kyiv had grounds to worry. Putin operates by bluff, disinformation and false flags. He blows smoke, but sometimes his troops march through that smoke. That’s why we ought to pay attention to reports on Russian state media that there are to be military ‘manoeuvres in the Kaliningrad region,’ the Russian enclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.
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Svitlana Morenets is a Ukrainian author, journalist and (currently) a refugee living in London and working at The Spectator. We are gauging interest in a regular email from her reporting on the Ukraine conflict and stories (like the above) which may not be reported in English-language media. To register your interest, please sign up here.
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