Putin wants the West ‘disarmed’ into thinking his ambitions won’t go beyond Ukraine, former NATO commander says
A former commander of NATO is warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actual goals in attacking Ukraine are to establish “control over Eastern Europe” and to “shatter the Western military alliance.”

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