Not long after the Kharkiv collapse, Russia declared annexation before the military had control of the Kremlin’s aspirations. Mobilization soon followed. These choices, in my opinion, were the Kremlin realizing its options were running out. (/15) https://
nytimes.com/2022/10/17/opi
nion/russia-ukraine-military-putin.html
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