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Russia's Ukraine War Shifts Southward

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Ben Domenech
Apr 22, 2022
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Russia seems to have settled on their new plan for the war in Ukraine: dominate the South.

Russia aims to seize southern Ukraine and to open a route to the separatist region of Transnistria in Moldova, a senior Russian general says.

Maj Gen Rustam Minnekayev specified that Moscow would seek to take "full control" over the south in addition to the eastern…

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