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Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern Border.

After the last emotional episode, well, I've written an article for Foreign Policy magazine.

That's going to come out very soon.

It's about Jeddavshin in the Russian army and the Soviet one before that.

So that took up a lot of my time.

But right now we're going to finish this month with some really cool episodes.

This one's about the news.

And there's going to be another one where we're going to talk about soldiers' mothers, and the Russian

soldiers' mothers, and how they protest, how they try to protest, what's going on there. I'm going

to have everything on the show, and, well, you'll care for yourselves, why everything is not as

beachy as one might think.

However, this time, well, massive casualties are there in the front lines,

but it doesn't move very well because, again, it's not to blame the Ukrainians,

it's to blame the West for insufficient aid, really.

At the same time, we have a lot of things going on on the

psychological war of this whole thing. For starters, I'm going to have a special article to read

for you. That's going to come from Radio Liberty, Europe, which is going to be about a listener's friend who's no suffering because of his family.

I think I'll start with that too because we have other news, but I was told that this is important

and translated the article. And might be we're going to have the hero of the story here on the show as well later on

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