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This is what Putin will achieve – VG


WITH THE GENERALS: Russian President Vladimir Putin with Defense Minister Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu (right) and Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov (left) during a military exercise near the border with Belarus in September.

Russia has moved 100,000 troops to the border, delivering a list of demands that NATO cannot possibly meet. But what does Vladimir Putin really want to achieve?

The fear of war has increased month by month this autumn. Russia has moved what appears to be an invading force right up to the border with Ukraine.

In November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went out and explained that they feared that a coup attempt with Russian help was underway. Now there are fears that Russian forces will invade the neighboring country.

– On the Ukrainian side, they fear a major offensive. Either the Russians are trying to take the whole country, or the whole eastern region, all the way to the Dnieper River, explains Russia expert Jakub M. Godzimirski at the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Policy (NUPI).

The Dnieper flows through the capital Kiev, among other places.

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