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We are fighting to avoid becoming a Ukrainian shell of a Russian entity
About the author: Yuliia Boklah is a PR specialist and board member of the Helping to Leave charitable project, which has evacuated more than 21,000 Ukrainians from occupied territories or deportation since Russia’s full-scale invasion. It’s Friday evening. I am wrapping up urgent work matters and glancing at the news. In Ternopil, the rubble of a residential building destroyed by a Russian missile is still being cleared, and society is being rocked by new painful updates and heartbreaking sto
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A Russian military victory in Ukraine would cost Europe twice as much as a Ukrainian victory, according to a new study by Corisk and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs published on Nov. 25.
