Are the Russians coming?

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Concerns grow across Europe as winter approaches, with speculation that Russian President Vladimir Putin may attempt to achieve a conventional victory in Ukraine by moving through the Baltic States. The eastern Ukraine Donbas region remains heavily fortified and resistant to Russian advances.

Winter is soon coming, and so too is a growing dread across Europe. It is dawning on European capitals that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s only conventional path to victory in Ukraine may lie through the Baltic States. Kyiv’s fortress Donbas in eastern Ukraine remains largely impenetrable. Despite Russian claims in advance of last week’s Duma elections that…