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Peace is far less fanciful than a Russian defeat
With Washington and London leading the charge for escalation in Ukraine, it’s up to the anti-war movement, working with trade unions and others, to lead the push for peace, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Anna Shevchenko, 35, waters the few flowers that survived in the garden of her home in Irpin, near Kiev

SEVERAL WARS appear to be taking place in Ukraine at present.

There is a war which does not involve Russia at all, as per two motions put to the Stop the War Coalition conference last month.

They spoke exclusively of Nato and did not mention, still less criticise, the Russian invasion. They were heavily defeated.

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