Russia’s Ukraine war based on ‘a disastrous miscalculation’
By DW
28 December 2022 |
5:58 am
In an interview with DW, British historian Mark Galeotti explains why the West did not believe Russia would invade Ukraine and how he sees the war playing out in 2023.
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