War in Ukraine: Russia gains ground, while Ukrainian morale plummets

The progress of the Russian troops is small but continuous. For several weeks now, Russia’s military has been advancing in many places on the Ukrainian front and making territorial gains, raising doubts about Kiev’s ability to reverse this trend. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s army has seized 478 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory since the start of October, the biggest territorial gains it has recorded in a month since the first weeks of the war, according to an AFP analysis based on data from the American Institute for the Study of of War (ISW). “Russia has been on the offensive all year,” observed Meduza, a Russian opposition outlet banned in Russia. “But the past week has been one of the toughest for the Ukrainian armed forces,” he added. The ISW figures do not point to a military collapse of Ukraine. But “what is more worrying is that this is a trend”, assessed the French general Michel Goya historian […]
Source: News Beast

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