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Conflicts that expand to include attacks on economic infrastructure reprice risk along the cross-border corridors that run through the affected region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin characterized Ukraine's campaign of strikes against economic targets as having opened a 'pandora's box', a framing that places the Kremlin's rhetoric firmly in escalation territory.
What follows from that threshold, the statement left open. A 'pandora's box' implies release rather than warning: something set in motion that cannot be recalled.
Whether Moscow intends the language as a signal of reciprocal targeting or as retroactive justification for its own posture, Putin's statement does not specify.
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