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The full paragraph:
>The full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 saw mechanized war return to Europe. Beyond the Balkan Wars and 2008 invasion of Georgia, European conflicts had been small-scale and ‘hybrid’ (such as in Crimea1) or scarcely-mechanized (including the undeclared war in the Donbas).
>While
armour played a very limited role in various NATO out-of-area operations in the Middle East and Africa, the closest thing to real tank-on-tank actions involving European forces took place in the context of the 1990–91 Iraq War,
some 30 years prior.