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that's a nice moral high-ground you have there, Ukraine - would be a shame if you were to just trash it completely
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 83%. (I'm a bot)


A senior Ukrainian official has said that the impact of Azerbaijan's blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh is being exaggerated as a Russian effort to distract the world's attention from the war in his country.
In an interview with the Moldovan public broadcaster, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that the blockade was being "Pumped up" in order to "Distract attention from the war in Ukraine and redirect it to other conflict spots so the whole world looks there."
Beyond deflecting the world's attention, another "Goal" was that "Russia one way or another wants to return its dominant position" and "Demonstrate that only it can mediate to resolve conflicts like this." Russia also was using the issue of the blockade, "At the expense of reigniting the conflict," in order to put pressure on Azerbaijan and its ally Turkey "To make them more pro-Russian."


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