As Ukraine seizes ‘first chance to win’, war horrors come home to Russia

Kyiv, Ukraine – For centuries, the Russian phrase “behind the Urals Mountains” meant “safe from a foreign invasion”.

During the Napoleonic incursion of 1812 or the Nazi German assault in 1941, anywhere behind the mountain range that divides Russia’s European part from Siberia seemed far enough for the evacuation of civilians and military factories.

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