From Kherson to Khartoum, Putin Greets Spring With Fiendish Fervor
The Kremlin flexes its long arms in occupied southern Ukraine and in Sudan’s fresh chaos.

Who did Vladimir Putin think he was fooling? The Russian strongman worked the pious look by holding a candle and making the sign of the cross in a Moscow church for Russian Orthodox Easter alongside the hoary Patriarch Krill, who calls Ukraine “little Russia.” It was a show for the cameras bookmarked on one side by the Russian Pacific fleet’s snap drills and on the other by a brazen visit to Russian forces in the occupied southern Ukrainian region of Ukraine on Monday.
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