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Sat Aug 17, 2024, 07:37 AM Aug 2024

How Russia looked the wrong way as Ukraine invaded

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/how-russia-looked-wrong-way-ukraine-invaded-2024-08-17/

How Russia looked the wrong way as Ukraine invaded

By Mark Trevelyan, Anastasiia Malenko and Gleb Stolyarov
August 17, 2024 7:57 AM EDT Updated 20 min ago

- Attack sowed panic as thousands fled, some went missing

- Acting governor issued false reassurances

- Army chief was focused on next moves inside Ukraine

- Putin silent for whole of incursion's first day

LONDON/KYIV, Aug 17 (Reuters) - In the hours before Ukrainian soldiers stormed across Russia's western border, there was no sign from Moscow that anything was amiss.

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