Russia’s 24 February invasion of Ukraine, writes Philip Short in his expansive new biography, Putin: His Life and Times, was to be Vladimir’s ‘crowning achievement’. Now, seven months into that disastrous war, a Russian pro-war military blogger, Igor Girkin, has appraised his 430,000 viewers of the discomforting truth: ‘The war in Ukraine will continue until the complete defeat of Russia.
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