Putin escalates the war on Ukraine as blitzkrieg calculations fail
Moscow has put its nuclear deterrence forces on high alert in an extreme form of brinkmanship.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia and has been the country’s leader, with an interlude as prime minister, for more than 22 years. Putin was born in 1952, studied law at Leningrad State University and served for 15 years as a KGB officer before becoming a politician in 1991.
Moscow has put its nuclear deterrence forces on high alert in an extreme form of brinkmanship.
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