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Even though some Western leaders cannot bring themselves to describe what Russia is doing in Ukraine as "an invasion," Ukraine today is under a mortal threat, and according to Arkady Babchenko, Kyiv and the Ukrainian people are fighting not just to recover the Donbas and Crimea but for their survival as a nation and a state. 

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