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BERLIN — Even before Washington warned that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could be imminent, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was facing a daunting double mission to Kyiv and Moscow this week.
In Ukraine on Monday, his main task is to pacify national leaders angry at Berlin’s refusal to supply defensive weapons and take a more explicit line on sanctions against Russia.
But that delicate diplomatic undertaking is dwarfed by his task the following day in Moscow, particularly after the dramatic U.S. warning on Friday and the decision of multiple Western governments to tell their citizens to leave Ukraine.
If Washington’s
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