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2024-03-21 20:22:23 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 89DA3690D72570CB4D1E6BAB63F7070E41AE4FB68E4D661119352B7F0FFCE7C6
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The term "special military operation" used by Russia is widely considered to be a euphemism created to minimise and obfuscate the true nature of the full-fledged war started by Russia in Ukraine. Russian authorities require reference to the war only as a special operation https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/2/do-not-call-ukraine-invasion-a-war-russia-tells-media-schools https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/02/28/russia-war-censorship-reaches-new-heights
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