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2 months ago | 
themoscowtimes.com | Charlie Hancock |Pyotr Kozlov
BRUSSELS – U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said Washington would not send peacekeepers to Ukraine as part of post-war security guarantees for Kyiv and dismissed the goal of restoring Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders as “unrealistic.” In a speech where he stressed that the U.S. remained committed to NATO but would “no longer tolerate” European alliance members depending on Washington for security, Hegseth told the Ukraine Defense Contact Group that the U.S.’s priority was now...
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
kozlovpaper.substack.com | Pyotr Kozlov
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
kozlovpaper.substack.com | Pyotr Kozlov
Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk and Lipetsk border regions has stunned the Russian military and come as a “slap in the face” to President Vladimir Putin personally, four Russian officials told Politika.Kozlov. Thanks for reading The Kozlovpaper! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
kozlovpaper.substack.com | Pyotr Kozlov
“I am still in shock from this bloody war. I could not have imagined such a thing in a terrible dream. Why did Putin attack [Ukraine]? I'm against it, that's why I left right away,” a Russian citizen working as an IT specialist at a major international firm said in a pub in central London. “I go home periodically,” the middle-aged man continued, gesticulating as he spoke to his drinking companion. “I have an apartment and my beloved dacha. I have to take care of them.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
kozlovpaper.substack.com | Pyotr Kozlov
The imprisonment of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is a means for the Kremlin to achieve several strategic objectives against its adversary the United States. Gershkovich, 32, a U.S. citizen, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage charges on Friday following a swiftly executed trial that his employer and the U.S. government decried as a sham — an unprecedented case against a foreign journalist in modern Russia.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
themoscowtimes.com | Pyotr Kozlov
The imprisonment of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is a means for the Kremlin to achieve several strategic objectives against its adversary the United States. Gershkovich, 32, a U.S. citizen, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage charges on Friday following a swiftly executed trial that his employer and the U.S. government decried as a sham — an unprecedented case against a foreign journalist in modern Russia.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
themoscowtimes.com | Pyotr Kozlov
The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by President Vladimir Putin, a nuclear-armed authoritarian leader, poses what appears to be a completely unsolvable challenge for Western diplomacy. While Russian gliding cruise bombs and ballistic missiles have been falling from the sky onto peaceful Ukrainians for two and a half years, Kyiv's Western allies have been unable to overcome their internal disagreements to decide whether to negotiate or fight Putin.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
themoscowtimes.com | Pyotr Kozlov
Russia’s leadership is following the U.S. presidential campaign in private with excitement and interest — and are rooting for their favorite candidate, Donald Trump, to win, three government and presidential administration officials, three Foreign Ministry officials, former officials and two sources from Russia’s business elite told The Moscow Times.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
themoscowtimes.com | Pyotr Kozlov
President Vladimir Putin signed a military partnership deal with North Korea and visited U.S. business partner Vietnam this week in an effort to intimidate Ukraine’s Western allies and show that he is not as isolated on the world stage as they would like.
