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As they approached, so too at the Neva’s mouth did a naval gallimaufry. A mad patchwork flotilla.

the party gave its hurried and flustered blessing to a march on the Tauride Palace, in an effort to spread its aegis over a fait accompli

Perhaps they had been evasive, had elided distinct positions, and perhaps that had confused some audiences.

the young Ukrainian Aleksandr Dneprovskiy execrated the patriotic press in the last months before the offensive as ‘tubs of printed slop … poured over the heads of long-suffering humanity’.

The old guard at the army’s top were deeply bitter at the direction of the war and the erosion of old nostrums.