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A destroyed Russian tank in Svitohirsk, Ukraine, on April 6, 2024. (Photo by Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken takes part in a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in the Thomas Jefferson Room of the State Department in Washington, DC, on March 8, 2024. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
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Firefighters work on the site of a fire on May 4, 2024, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Mavrychev/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC "UA:PBC"/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
