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Peskov drops the euphemism: Russia now calls the war a war
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has publicly abandoned the "special military operation" vocabulary, demanding Ukrainian recognition of occupied territories and troop withdrawal as the price of ending what he now openly calls a full-scale war.

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