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🗓️ 17 February 2022
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In short, the world is watching this story because Russian President Vladimir Putin has amassed 150,000 troops along Ukraine's border. Russia and Ukraine have been engaged in a kind of trench warfare in Donbas, the eastern region of Ukraine, for years. But Russia's latest troop build-up signals to many the potential for a full-scale war or invasion.
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1:12.5 | I am your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are going to be talking about Ukraine and Russia and the latest updates. We've covered this a couple times now, but there's been significant movement on this topic to justify |
1:17.8 | another newsletter on it. So we're going to cover that. Before we jump in, as always, we'll start |
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1:44.0 | worried them. |
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