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The Economist

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For almost every Ukrainian, there is now a February 28th moment. Where were you when your president was attacked by the hyenas of the White House and when he—perhaps unwisely—chose to scratch back? For a piece I wrote this weekend, I turned first to those who may matter most: the soldiers on the front line. For them, the uproar in Washington was mostly background noise to the artillery and other explosions. But Volodymyr Zelensky’s defiance seems to have struck a chord with them. Those who could fired off messages in group chats. An officer in a secret unit with access to some of the chats claimed the moment seemed to turbocharge morale: “Everyone says Sanych [Mr Zelensky] did well.” The officer himself shrugged off the spat. Even the talk of America possibly cutting support didn’t shake him. Three years of war had thrown even worse challenges at him. He decided to go to bed an hour earlier than usual: “It felt like the most constructive thing to do.”  The resolve in the trenches is m

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