BERLIN — A Russian newspaper claims to have an official government strategy document outlining the invasion of Ukraine that was prepared weeks before the Ukrainian government collapsed last year.
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Pro-Russian separatist ride on the 9K33 Osa surface-to-air missile system (NATO reporting name is SA-8 Gecko) in the eastern Ukrainian city of Makeyevka on February 21, 2015. Ukraine's military and pro-Moscow rebels swapped scores of prisoners in rare compliance with a truce so badly breached over the past week that the US warned it could escalate sanctions on Russia within days. AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV
