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Lately, Russia has seized on the simple, yet effective strategy of exploiting its people’s war-made hopelessness by providing military salaries that outbid any employer in town, in most towns. Now, over a year and a half later, many things have stayed the same and some have gotten even worse.
23 February 2022 felt interminable. All sorts of intelligence agencies had spent the previous few weeks trying to give President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the date when the great Russian invasion would "definitely" begin.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in jail on Feb. 16 follows a long list of murders and suspicious deaths of opponents of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Since he came to power in 1999, more than 20 Putin critics have been killed or died mysteriously. Another long litany is that of killed enemies of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, a major Putin ally.
British intelligence has suggested that corruption is likely one of the key factors that has significantly weakened the Russian military in the ongoing war, according to a report by the British Ministry of Defense published on X (Twitter) on Feb. 2.
The place where one of the missiles fell was filmed by local residents.