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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Sam Kiley

Ukraine had brutal plan to bankrupt Putin with his own war dead – until Trump’s oil U-turn wrecked it

Ukraine’s war effort is being undermined by sales of air-defence munitions to the Gulf and continued aggression from Washington, while an oil-price bonanza means that Moscow can now, literally, fund its own war dead.

In the grim calculus of the “meat grinder” conflict on Europe’s eastern flank, Kyiv’s defence ministry has a target of killing 50,000 Russian soldiers a month.

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