Covert Wars, Criminal Gangs, and the ‘New Threat’ Environment

"The short version is that the war continues and therefore you could argue that the sanctions have been ineffective but they have degraded Russia's ability to pursue its war.

Matthew Savill, the director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, said that if Taurus was fired from the border it could conceivably hit targets close to Moscow. Though that would be the nightmare outcome for many of Kyiv’s allies, there is a more likely scenario."

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