Where next in Ukraine?

The decisive factor in shaping this war has been the relatively small number of troops engaged on either side. When the Nazi and Soviet armies were waging their titanic battles back and forth across Ukraine in 1941-43, several million soldiers were fighting on each side.
The NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group conducts an exercise in the Camp Ādaži training area in Latvia as part of Operation Reassurance, on Sept. 1, 2019. There may soon be a significant further Ukrainian advance in the far north of the line, building on the success of the September offensive, writes Gwynne Dyer.

LONDON, U.K.—The recovery of the city of Kherson is the third big victory for the Ukrainian armed forces in three months: first, the reconquest of the province of Kharkiv Oblast in September, then the partial destruction of the Kerch Strait bridge linking Crimea with Russi...

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