With Ukrainian renunciation in the past few days of this coerced agreement, however, the stage may be set for Russian military strikes (nominally at the invitation of "threatened ethnic minorities" in Eastern Ukraine) the sort of aggression on the part of the former Soviet armed forces that Boris Yeltsin may be unwilling or no longer able to prevent.

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With Ukrainian renunciation in the past few days of this coerced agreement, however, the stage may be set for Russian military strikes (nominally at the invitation of "threatened ethnic minorities" in Eastern Ukraine) -- the sort of aggression on the part of the former Soviet armed forces that Boris Yeltsin may be unwilling or no longer able to prevent.

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