European Spies Piece Together the Strategy Behind Russian Abuses
Officials say Russia is looking to engineer support for the Kremlin by torturing and killing those who show loyalty to Kyiv and deporting Ukrainian children
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Behind the front lines of the war, Russian forces are trying to ensure that the territory they have captured can never be integrated into Ukraine again, according to European intelligence officials.
In more than a year since the invasion, Moscow has entrenched its control of large parts of southern and eastern Ukraine by engineering cultural and demographic shifts through violence, economic coercion and the replacement of local populations, the officials said, asking not to be named discussing confidential material.