DefenceTalkMoscow: The military intervention in Syria ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday marks the first time that Moscow has taken part in a war far from its borders since its troops fought in Afghanistan in the late Soviet era. It comes after Russia’s landgrab of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in March last year, when […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russias-post-soviet-military-engagements-beyond-its-borders-65530/