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Evening Standard Comment: Sanctions are vital, but it is weapons that win wars

Britain will reportedly soon send armoured missile launchers to Ukraine after Russia started its full-scale offensive to take control of the country’s east (PA)

(Picture: PA Archive)

The battle for the Donbas has begun. The long-awaited Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine appears to be underway, with vast artillery and rocket attacks.

Vladimir Putin may have withdrawn his forces from areas around Kyiv, but his war aims have not atrophied. He still wants to destroy Ukraine, refuses to view it as a real country and has no regard for human life.

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