The backdoor to Russia is in Ukraine’s sights

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A deadly Ukrainian attack on a key strategic lake that Russia and Iran use to smuggle arms threatens to tear open a new front that could dramatically expand the war. Ukraine said its drones hit a Russian missile boat, oil platform and two sanctioned military cargo vessels in the Caspian Sea late last month. (Iran claims Ukraine struck a commercial cargo ship, killing a sailor, and threatened retribution.) The strike prompted fears of a fusing of the two ongoing conflicts, one launched by Vladimir Putin and the other by Donald Trump. Tehran claimed that the attack aimed to bring Europe…

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