Ukraine: what next?

Street-fighting eats up troops like no other military operation, so the Russian reluctance to launch a full-scale ground attack on big cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa is understandable.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured Feb. 19, 2022, observes strategic deterrence forces exercise in the Kremlin’s situation room.
LONDON, U.K.—Russian troops are stalled for the third week outside most of the major cities of eastern and central Ukraine, but they have failed to surround and cut off any of them except Mariupol, the big port on the Black Sea that has become the Ukrainian ‘Stalingrad.' Indeed, Ukrainian counte...

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