Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Simon Shuster: Russians start paying the price for Putin’s Ukraine adventure
Russian soldiers stand guard near Russia's tanks T-90A (top) and T-80U (C) at the military exhibition \"Oboronexpo-2014\" in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, on Aug. 13, 2014.
For most Russians, indeed nearly all of them, the crisis in Ukraine has had a distant, almost virtual quality. It has been something they watched on TV, or debated in their kitchens, rooting for the pro-Russian rebel militias and cursing the Ukrainian government as though the war between them was hardly more than a gruesome sporting match.
