The decree suggests that President Vladimir V. Putin expects a prolonged war in Ukraine, but he stopped short of full mobilization, and it was not clear how the military would reach his goal.
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Putin Orders a Sharp Expansion of Russia’s Hard-Hit Armed Forces
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