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The ruse with the dirty bomb: A sign of Putin’s weakness?

October 27, 2022

While the Ukrainian army is preparing an offensive against the Kherson region, Moscow is accusing Kiev of getting ready to use dirty bombs. Is this all war strategy? Our guests: Jessica Berlin (German Marshall Fund), Gustav Gessel (ECFR), Roman Goncharenko (DW).

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Jessica Berlin is a geostrategic expert with the German Marshall Fund. 

 

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Gustav Gressel, senior policy fellow and military expert at the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations 

 

 

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Ukrainian colleague Roman Goncharenko, he is working for DWs Russia desk.
 

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