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After a pause of more than two months, for a few hours on the morning of Nov. 11 it seemed Russia’s forces were about to resume mass missile attacks against Ukraine – with winter right around the corner. In Kyiv and cities across Ukraine, sirens sounded, people headed to shelters, emergency blackouts were introduced, and monitoring channels on Telegram tracked Russian heavy bombers in real time. Yet, while warnings of an imminent mass aerial attack have been sounding for weeks, a few hours of tension and panic soon turned into relief as it became apparent it was a Russian aviation training exe…