Welcome to 'New Russia': How the Kremlin is remaking occupied Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has grand plans for "Novorossiya" — a term from Russia's czarist imperial past that modern nationalists use to describe eastern and southeastern Ukraine
By Anastasiia Malenko, Filipp Lebedev, Gleb Stolyarov, Ryan McNeill and Mari Saito
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Blazing trains, burning tracks, black smoke.Footage posted online by Ukrainian fighters documents their repeated sabotage attacks on a vast railroad system being built by Russia across the occupied territories of Ukraine
But their efforts are not nearly enough to hold back the tide of Moscow's rapid industrial expansion.The attacks on Russia's supply chains have made scant impact, and tightening Russian control is snuffing out opposition efforts, said one Ukrainian fighter, Orest, using his military call-sign for security reasons as he operates ⁠behind enemy lines in the Donetsk region
"The railroad is hundreds of kilometers long," he said
"We're not all-powerful, unfortunately."
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