Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Four 'fronts' in the Ukraine-Russia war to look out for as winter bites

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par Scott Lucas, Professor, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin

Russia had expected to be victorious long before now. Its initial plan envisaged ground assaults across Ukraine in the first ten days and a rapid capitulation thereafter. But Kyiv did not fall – and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, refused to leave the capital, saying, “I need ammunition, not a ride,” as he rallied Ukrainians. Russian troops had withdrawn from northern Ukraine by April.

Moscow pursued a more limited operation in the second phase over the spring…

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