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Weekend Update #36: 500 days

The New Battle of Kherson, Cluster Munitions, Erdogan snubs Putin, Ukraine and NATO

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Phillips P. OBrien
Jul 09, 2023
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Well this was a week where the line only moved a little bit in a few places—the Ukrainians seemed to make most of their advances around Bakhmut, but they also made some around Zaporizhzhia, and yet it was a week full of news, with some very important indications of where the war is heading (and what the future might look like). I’ve identified four poin…

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