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Nolan Peterson: Putin’s saber-rattling spooks Ukraine and the Baltics
A Ukrainian serviceman walks among the ruins of building destroyed by pro-Russian separatists shelling in the small town of Shyrokyne, in Donetsk region, on August 14, 2016.
As the late summer weather begins to cool, Russian military exercises have kept the tensions hot in Ukraine and across Eastern Europe.Periodic flare-ups in the ongoing war in Ukraine’s embattled Donbas region this summer have renewed fears of a full-on Russian invasion and spurred an unprecedented post–Cold War redeployment of NATO military forces toward the alliance’s eastern flank to deter further Russian aggression in the region.
