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Institute for the Study of War: Kremlin denies Ukrainian munitions hit Crimea to avoid admitting ‘ineffectiveness of Russian air defense’

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The U.S. think tank reported on Aug. 9 that the Kremlin has “little incentive” to blame the explosions at the Russian-controlled airbase in Crimea on Ukraine for similar reasons as for the Ukrainian sinking of the Russian Moskva cruiser. Ukraine has not commented on the cause of the explosions.

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Russia failed to break Ukraine’s army on the battlefield, and now it’s trying to do it through a peace plan that would cap Ukraine’s forces at 600,000. Some argue that Ukraine would shrink its army — currently estimated at about 800,000 — after the war anyway.

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