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As Walls Close In, Zelensky Lashes Out
To be sure, Ukraine has been getting its own hits in, launching deep strikes at Russian oil refineries to up the pressure on Moscow. Such strikes seem intended to force Russia’s President Vladimir Putin into an energy ceasefire before the winter, so at least there’s some kind of strategic logic involved. But, as the military analyst Jennifer Kavanagh put it on a recent podcast, “Anything Ukraine can do, Russia can do better.”
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