"There is this fear that if this campaign continues, and especially if it escalates, that at some point the Russians will just assume it's Washington and London who are telling the Ukrainians to come and kill and blow up and send drones and on Russian soil, and this may trigger a response from the Russians."
Russia and the US fear that an expected spate of assassinations over winter could escalate the war in Ukraine, Mark Galeotti tells #timesradio
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