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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
With Ukrainian soldiers finding parade uniforms among the belongings of captured Russian soldiers, it seems that when Russia first began this brutal invasion, it expected Kyiv to be under full Russian occupation, the Ukrainian government to be overthrown and victory parades to be underway by now. A month on, with Russia facing fierce Ukrainian resistance, as well as almost the entire world united against Putin’s war, you have Russian generals making a series of humiliating climbdowns on their goals, contradicting the original hubristic rhetoric. Most significantly, Russia has essentially admit…