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If Russia was aiming to target one of Ukraine's vulnerabilities, natural gas would be the bullseye. Ukraine gets about 60 percent of its gas from Russia.
Clifford Gaddy, a Russia specialist at the Brookings Institution, says as the dispute between the two countries grows, Moscow is more willing to use natural gas as a weapon.
"The ways in which Russia can play with this gas lever, how it can use it, these are not things that they just think of from one day to the next," Gaddy says. "They've thought out the scenarios, they've gamed it all, they have fallback options, they're using it very tactically."
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