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Kateryna Hodunova

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Kateryna Hodunova is a News Editor at the Kyiv Independent. She previously worked as a sports journalist in several Ukrainian outlets and was the deputy chief editor at Suspilne Sport. Kateryna covered the 2022 Olympics in Beijing and was included in the Special Mentions list at the AIPS Sport Media Awards. She holds a bachelor's degree in political journalism from Taras Shevchenko University and a master's degree in political science from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, on June 22, 2025.

Testing NATO, Russia's 'salami slicing tactics' now threaten Poland, Baltic states

by Kateryna Hodunova
Russia's "unprecedented" drone attack on Poland last week has once again thrust a curious-sounding geopolitical phrase into the spotlight — salami slicing tactics. Salami slicing tactics is a term commonly used in geopolitics and military strategy to describe a method of achieving a larger objective through a series of small, incremental actions — each carefully calibrated to avoid provoking a strong or immediate response. "They're poking," former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the Kyi