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CLAIRE BERLINSKI, PARIS Czar wars, fuel feuds, arms sales, and more.

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Czar wars, fuel feuds, arms sales, and more.

[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text="?? Ukraine" font_container="tag:h4|text_align:center|color:%23000000" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]Russia’s grinding march:

The momentum Ukraine generated after pushing Russian forces back from Kyiv, the capital, and Kharkiv, the second-largest city, has given way in the east to weeks of give-and-take over villages, heavy shelling—and a stream of Ukrainian dead and wounded from the battlefields. Ukraine’s troops now face a Russian force that has shifted strategy from the hasty, reckless advances of the early weeks of the war to a creeping, grinding march enabled by massive artillery bombardments. The Russians mix artillery barrages with probing maneuvers by infantry or armored vehicles, identifying new targets by approaching Ukrainian lines and dr…