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Mariia Zolkina
Mariia Zolkina is the Head of Regional Security and Conflict Studies at the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, a Ukrainian think tank based in Kyiv. Zolkina is also a research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
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Burkovsky, Zolkina: How Ukraine and the West can stop Putin’s nuclear blackmail
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed in the op-ed section are those of the authors and do not purport to reflect the views of the Kyiv Independent.
Putin's threats to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus reflect his goal to keep Crimea after Russia's defeat in the war.
Three days after Chinese President Xi Jinping left Moscow for Beijing, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his intention to allow the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, a satellite dictatorship invo
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