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Oct 2022
20m 49s

A Bridge, a Bomb and Putin’s Revenge

The New York Times
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Just before the sun came up on Saturday on the Kerch Strait Bridge, a strategically and symbolically important link between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, a bomb detonated, creating a giant fireball. But Ukrainian elation about the explosion quickly turned into concern about how Russia would respond. And in the days since, Moscow’s retaliation has been t ... Show More
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