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With the West now focused on the Middle East, Russia “has poured more men and equipment” into its series of “ferocious assaults” along the 1,000-kilometre front in Ukraine, says Michael Clarke in The Sunday Times. These counterattacks are “aimed at wresting back the initiative before winter sets in”, which will make further