Euan MacDonald: Divide and re-conquer?
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Vladimir Putin may well have expected to gain a lot more in Ukraine when in the spring of 2014 he ordered Russian military operative Igor Girkin and his unit of 50 special operations troops to start a fake insurgency in the Donbas.