Putin’s failure doesn’t mean a win for Ukrainians

With all hopes of Russia winning a lightning victory shattered, the war has devolved into a protracted battle of attrition.
Now that Vladimir Putin has reduced his strategic goal to consolidating control over eastern and southern Ukraine, the courageous Ukrainian defenders will be hard pressed to recapture lost ground.
OTTAWA—In the dumbed-down version of the war in Ukraine, an awkward truth simply overlooked is that many of those fighting alongside the Russian invaders are themselves citizens of Ukraine. The ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking separatists in the Donbas region still reside in what Canada recog...

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