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Estonian security expert Martin Hurt talked to ETV's "Ringvaade" about the Russian army, Putin's military tactics and the Ukraine conflict.

Martin Hurt, deputy director and member of the executive board of the International Center for Defense Studies in Tallinn, answered Marko Reikop's questions about the new Russian tanks, the Mistral deal with France and the situation in Ukraine.

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