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Contact line with Russian-occupied regions in east Ukraine (Photo: Christopher Bobyn)

Analysis

Why does Putin want a Ukraine crisis?

Russia has suddenly started preparing for full-scale war in Ukraine, but what does its president, Vladimir Putin, really want?

"Will it happen or not? Let's wait and see. In the West, they don't know what to do about it," is how Pavel Felgenhauer, a Russian security expert, summed up the situation on Friday (2 April).

When Russian newspaper Rosbalt asked him why the Kremlin might want to start a war, he answered:...

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