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Berlin As has just become known, the Russian state news agency Ria Novosti published a comment on Russia’s victory over Ukraine on Saturday morning. “A new world is emerging before our eyes,” it says.
Russia is restoring its “historical completeness”; “the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe of our history, its unnatural fragmentation has been overcome,” it says, alluding to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Vladimir Putin had described this as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century”. Now, “Ukraine as anti-Russia will no longer exist,” the victory has already been celebrated.
Many interpret this prematurely published comment by a strictly state-controlled agency as meaning that Russia’s leadership was counting on a quick military victory. And that the advance of almost 200,000 Russian soldiers in the direction of Ukraine is progressing much more slowly than planned.
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