WIRE — Andrei Klepach, chief economist at Vneshekonombank (Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs, also known as VEB), a major Russian state-owned bank, has said that Russia will not be able to win a war of attrition against Ukraine backed by the West and is inevitably heading towards a major social crisis.

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