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Valery Gerasimov may not be able to stem Russia’s losses
Vladimir Putin shuffling around the military’s top brass won’t significantly alter the reality of Russia’s war.
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.
Vladimir Putin shuffling around the military’s top brass won’t significantly alter the reality of Russia’s war.
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