The tide has changed for the Russian war machine

It would seem that after 15 months of fighting, the tables have been turned and it is the Russian military that has become the snowball in this equation.

As a sort of chess-move counter to Russia losing the battlefield advantage, Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently ordered the forward deployment of tactical nuclear weapons into neighbouring Belarus, writes Scott Taylor. Photograph courtesy of the Presidential Executive Office of Russia/Flickr

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

May 29, 2023

OTTAWA—While the war in Ukraine has dropped out of the headlines, it would seem that major events are soon to unfold in that conflict. In the early days following the Russian invasion, no one gave Ukraine a snowball’s chance in hell of being able to resist.

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