Putin avoids Russia blame match — for now — soon after Ukraine attack | CNN
It was New Year’s Eve, one particular of the most cherished holiday seasons in Russia. The recruits in President Vladimir Putin’s war in opposition to Ukraine — hundreds of them mobilized just months in the past — ended up billeted in makeshift barracks, a vocational university in the occupied town of Makiivka, in the Donetsk region. Up coming door was a big ammunition depot.