Sometimes a term or acronym for one thing is extended to others. That is now happening with ORDLO, the Russian acronym for “the several districts of Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts” in Ukraine’s Donbass that Moscow has occupied in order to put pressure on Kyiv to accept Finlandization.
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Paul Goble: ORDLO now a way of thinking in Moscow
Ukrainian servicemen patrol at the checkpoint in the village of Shyrokyne near Mariupol, the last large city in eastern Ukraine controlled by Kyiv on April 26, 2021.
