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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Thomas Kingsley and Joe Sommerlad

Why did Russia invade Ukraine and what could happen next?

AP

Russia’s “special military operation” has been raging for almost nine months as the conflict records devastating casualties as well as the displacement of millions of Ukrainians.

President Vladimir Putin began the conflict by claiming Ukraine needed to be “demilitarised and de-Nazified”, an entirely baseless pretext on which to launch a landgrab against a sovereign neighbour state that happens to have a Jewish president.

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