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After Ukraine incursion, Russia slow to respond. Why?

WASHINGTON — Russian forces have begun slowly responding a week-long Ukrainian border raid that caught Moscow and even Kyiv’s allies by surprise, according to three U.S. officials.

Ukrainian troops poured across the lightly defended border northeast of Kyiv last week, seizing villages and taking Russian troops prisoner. The Ukrainians, backed by more than $55 billion in Pentagon aid since Russia’s invasion in Feb. 2022, did not inform the White House or Pentagon in advance of their incursion, a U.S. official said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin as blamed Ukraine’s allies for the embarrassing breach. “It appears that the enemy, with the support from their Western backers, is executing their directives, and the West is using Ukrainians as proxies in this conflict,” he said Monday at a national security meeting in Moscow.


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