CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto April 1, 2022 13:12:00
Other hand, no why say long term? russia hasn't abandoned the objective securing the donbas and crimea. the other thing is to take terrain as much as possible and force friendly terms on the ukrainians for cease-fire and peace negotiations. so anything outside of that strategic objective of getting a land bridge is bargaining chips. so containing or controlling chernobyl, circleing kiev and siegeing that. all of that is negotiating material. that's not a part of the strategic objective here. it's something that putin must have. everything else is a nice to have. on the withdrawal from chernoby...
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