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Russia is thinking of the creation of a “buffer zone” along its border with northeastern Ukraine amid persistent cross-border attacks on its western Kursk and Belgorod regions.“I don’t rule out the possibility that we will be forced at some point … to create a ‘sanitary zone’ in the territories that are currently under the Kyiv regime,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said on March 18.Over the we