JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Having ‘More and More Difficulties Conducting War in Ukraine’: Rice” – Newsweek

Ukraine Map Highlighting Donbas, adapted from image at defense.gov, with photo credit to Peggy Frierson, DOD

“… Rice isn’t the first military expert to suggest Russia’s soldiers, who have been painted as inexperienced and suffering from low morale, have been a reason for Russian failures. Some soldiers have reportedly been sent to the front line with little to no training …. [Reportedly even since the spring,] military leaders have had to promote unqualified soldiers to leadership […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Amnesty International’s report criticizing Ukraine is dividing the rights group” – NPR

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

“[An] Amnesty International … report … accusing the Ukrainian military of stationing … troops and artillery near hospitals, schools and residential buildings in ways that may amount to war crimes. … [has been getting] harsh pushback from Ukrainian officials and civil society leaders. … [including] Amnesty’s … own Ukraine operation. ‘We did everything we could to prevent this report from […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Is Russia high on war crimes?” – The Hill

Kremlin and River

“… the bombing of the theater and hospital in Mariupol … the destruction of Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and Kharkiv … mass executions in Irpin and Bucha … daily rapes[;] [t]he bombing of the shopping mall in Kremenchuk and the city center in Vinnytsia[] … the destruction of over 50 Ukrainian POWs and the online castration of a soldier […] Don’t the […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelenskyy advisor says Ukraine will hold peace talks when it has military might to repel Russia” – Fox

File photo

“Ukraine says peace talks will not happen until it has more advanced military capabilities to take on Russia.” “A top advisor to … Zelenskyy and … chief negotiator on [Ukrainian] peace talks with Russia, Mykhailo Podolyak, said … there are four ‘components’ Kyiv needs before negotiations with Moscow can continue – all … [relating to] advanced military equipment. … [such […]

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Amnesty Accuses Ukrainian Forces Of Endangering Civilians, Sparking Angry Response From Kyiv

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

(Article text Copyright © 2022 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036. – rferl.org – Todd Prince – Aug. 4, 2022 – article text also appeared at rferl.org/a/ukraine-amnesty-endangering-civilians/31974059.html) Ukrainian forces have been accused by Amnesty International of endangering civilians by basing themselves in residential buildings, schools, and […]

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Nuclear Weapons: What Does Russian Orthodox Church and Its Top Parishioner Believe?

Russian Mobile ICBM Parade File Photo

(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org – RM Staff – Aug. 3, 2022) This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin proclaimed in his written address to the Tenth Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that he “believe[s] that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, and we stand for equal and indivisible security for all members of the world community.” Interestingly enough, there was no such […]

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30 Percent of Russians Want War in Ukraine to End Now, Confidential Kremlin-Ordered Poll Shows

Ukraine Map Highlighting Donbas, adapted from image at defense.gov, with photo credit to Peggy Frierson, DOD

(Paul Goble – Window On Eurasia – Staunton, July 11 (Aug. 4)) A poll the Presidential Administration ordered VTsIOM to make but not publish finds that 30 percent of Russians want the war in Ukraine to be ended as soon as possible but that 57 percent say that Putin’s “special military operation” there should be continued until its victorious conclusion. […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kremlin says nuclear arms control talks hinge on U.S. goodwill” – AP

File Photo of Stealth Bomber in Flight

“The Kremlin said Tuesday … it’s ready for talks with the United States on nuclear arms control even as Moscow and Washington have remained locked in a tense standoff over Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Commenting on … Biden’s statement that Washington is open for talks on a new arms control deal to replace the New START treaty after it expires […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “A dark state; Vladimir Putin is in thrall to a distinctive brand of Russian fascism; That is why his country is such a threat to Ukraine, the West and his own people” – The Economist

Vladimir Putin file photo, adapted from screenshot of video at shareamerica.gov

“… A decade ago [when][] Putin’s popularity began to wane[] [h]e … [started] drawing on … fascist thinking … caught up in a cycle of grievance and resentment that has left reason far behind. … culminat[ing] in a ruinous war that … defied the weighing of risks and rewards. … Without the rhetoric of victimhood and the use of violence, […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “As Ukraine defends in the east and south, a U.S. official says Russia’s war effort is failing” – New York Times

Ukraine Map Highlighting Donbas, adapted from image at defense.gov, with photo credit to Peggy Frierson, DOD

“The Ukrainian military repelled attempted Russian advances in eastern Ukraine and pounded critical Russian logistical hubs overnight into Saturday as Russia continued to bombard towns and cities along the 400-mile front …. Ukraine made small but steady gains in … Kherson, a [southern] port city … where thousands of Russian soldiers are … largely isolated after Ukrainian strikes on … […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Putin Fights For” – Andrew Doris, Thomas Graham/ Survival (IISS)

Vladimir Putin file photo, adapted from screenshot of video at shareamerica.gov

“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reignited debate over the role of NATO expansion …. Robert Person and Michael McFaul dismiss Russian President Vladimir Putin’s NATO concerns as a ‘fiction,’ arguing that it was actually the expansion of democracy that threatened his autocratic regime. … Democracy and NATO expansion were not separate issues for Putin and the Russian elite, but mutually […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Former Putin aide Anatoly Chubais hospitalised with rare neurological disorder; Kremlin’s climate envoy quit shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” – Financial Times

Anatoly Chubais file photo

“[Anatoly Chubais,] … former senior aide to … Putin is … hospital[ized] in Italy … diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder …. A central architect of Russia’s post-communist privatisation, Chubais, 69, is the most senior [Kremlin] official to resign … [since] the [February] invasion of Ukraine …. Shortly before Chubais’s resignation, Putin said Russia needed to ‘purify itself’ by ‘distinguishing […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia ‘Running Out of Steam,’ ‘Growing Desperate’ in Ukraine War: Experts” – Newsweek

Ukraine Map Highlighting Donbas, adapted from image at defense.gov, with photo credit to Peggy Frierson, DOD

“[UK] [o]fficials … said Friday … Russia is ‘running out of steam’ and ‘growing desperate’ … that the ‘illegal invasion’ … has ‘backfired on the Kremlin.’ … [T]he [UK] Ministry of Defence stated … tens of thousands of Russian troops have been killed or wounded … that Russia is ‘resorting to hiring convicts and recruiting from Russia’s poorest areas’ … […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Shut Down by the Kremlin, Independent Russian Media Regroup Abroad” – WSJ

Fingers Typing on Computer Keyboard, adapted form image at nps.gov

“News outlets forced to close since Russia invaded Ukraine are soldiering on in exile.” “… [Following] Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin adopted legislation punishing the dissemination of false information about [Russian military activities] with up to 15 years in prison. [The] Kremlin … said … the law was needed because of ‘the absolutely unprecedented information war … against our […]

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Interview: Can Kyiv Launch An Offensive To Take Back Southern Ukraine?

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

(Article text Copyright © 2022 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036. – rferl.org – Reid Standish – July 27, 2022 – article text also appeared at rferl.org/a/pentagon-chris-dougherty-interview-southern-ukraine-offensive/31962608.html) Ukrainian forces continue to use U.S.-supplied precision rocket systems to target Russian supply lines in occupied parts of southern […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Russia Braces as Kherson Bridge Strikes Hint at Imminent Ukrainian Offensive” – Moscow Times

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

(Moscow Times – James Beardsworth – July 27, 2022) A barrage of Ukrainian rocket fire on the Russian-controlled Antonovskiy Bridge in the occupied Kherson region late Tuesday appeared to signal intensifying military preparations for Ukraine’s first major counteroffensive of the war. Video footage Wednesday showed huge craters in the strategic bridge over the Dnipro River that is part of a […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Is the Next Act in Putin’s Empire of Humiliation” – New York Times/ Peter Pomerantsev

European Portion of Commonwealth of Independent States

“… This war is an act of imperialism, a colonial war meant to destroy another nation’s right to exist and to subjugate it. But it is not empire building … [as] a coldly considered plan for territorial gain and economic resources; it is the next act of … Putin’s empire of humiliation. [Putin] would have the world believe [Russia] … […]

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Ukrainians Have No Interest in Trading Land for Peace, New Poll Finds

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

(Paul Goble – Window On Eurasia – Staunton, July 1, 2022) At a time when some commentators in the West are suggesting that Kyiv should make territorial concessions to Russia in exchange for peace, a new poll conducted by the National Democratic Institute found that few Ukrainians agreed with that and 89 percent say peace will be possible only if […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Sees Chance to Exploit Dwindling Russian Momentum” – WSJ

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

“Both sides face challenges in keeping front-line forces supplied.” “Ukraine and Russia are racing to iron out logistical issues … for the next phase of the war, … Moscow seeking to press gains in the east while Kyiv readies for a counteroffensive in the south. After weeks of fierce combat … culminat[ing] in Moscow claiming full control of the eastern […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Foreign soldiers flocked to Ukraine after Russia invaded. Five months on, the fighting is taking a heavy toll” – NBC

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

“Relentless Russian bombings were ‘the closest thing I’ve ever seen to hell,’ an American who served several tours of the Middle East said.” “… Despite the challenges, fighters [interviewed] … remained adamant about their commitment to pushing out the Kremlin’s forces. [They] admitted … that supply shortages, delays in receiving [promised Western] weapons … and communication frustrations have challenged their […]

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Has Russia Reached Its ‘Culminating Point’ in Ukraine?

Ukraine Map Highlighting Donbas, adapted from image at defense.gov, with photo credit to Peggy Frierson, DOD

(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org – RM Staff – July 20, 2022) This week’s reports that Russia’s invasion seems to be “entering a more aggressive phase” throw into stark relief one recurring theme in analysis of the Ukraine war: the prediction that Russian forces will soon exhaust their capabilities, reaching what the famous Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “CIA director estimates 15,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war” – Reuters

File Photo of CIA Seal on Floor

“[According to CIA Director William] Burns … ‘[t]he latest estimates from the U.S. intelligence community would be something in the vicinity of 15,000 (Russian forces) killed and maybe three times that wounded. So a quite significant set of losses’ … ‘[T]he Ukrainians have suffered as well – probably a little less than that[] [b]ut … significant casualties.’ … Burns said […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “What If the War in Ukraine Spins Out of Control? How to Prepare for Unintended Escalation” – Foreign Affairs

European Portion of Commonwealth of Independent States

“… [T]he true red lines have not yet been breached. … [B]oth sides hashed out a set of invisible rules …. Russia’s acceptance of allied heavy-weapons deliveries and intelligence support for Ukraine, but not … Western troops. … Western states’ grudging acceptance of Russian conventional warfare within Ukraine[] … (eager as [they] are to see Moscow defeated), as long as […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky FIRES security chief and state prosecutor after HUNDREDS of cases of treason and collaboration with Russia among officials were uncovered” – The Mail (UK)

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

“… Zelensky has fired … Ivan Bakanov, head of the security service, and Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, who had been leading efforts to prosecute Russian war crimes. Zelensky said more than 60 officials from the SBU security service and prosecutor’s office were working against Ukraine in Russian-occupied territories, and 651 treason and collaboration cases had been opened against law enforcement […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Implausible Theories of Victory; The Fantasy of Russian Defeat and the Case for Diplomacy” – Foreign Affairs

Ukraine Map Highlighting Donbas, adapted from image at defense.gov, with photo credit to Peggy Frierson, DOD

“As Russian forces gain ground … [Ukraine’s] president and allies … seem to agree: Ukraine must fight on to victory …. Russia would disgorge … [2022] territorial gains …. Ukraine would recognize neither the annexation of Crimea nor … secessionist statelets in the Donbas and would continue .. toward [EU and NATO] membership …. [f]or Russia, … clear defeat. … […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Lessons of Russia’s War in Ukraine: You Can’t Hide and Weapons Stockpiles Are Essential” – WSJ

File Photo of HIMARS Missile Being Launched, adapted from image at army.mil

“U.S., its allies study Europe’s biggest conflict in decades; ‘You can’t cyber your way across a river’” “…. Defense planners are studying weapons, tactics, logistics and other factors …. The conflict … has become something of a laboratory for professional soldiers[,] … so deadly … the first big war to play out in near-real-time …. [and] the first in decades […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Has Exposed Russia as a Not-So-Great Power” – The Atlantic

Russian Soldiers Marching

“Kyiv’s success against Moscow forces us to reexamine our assumptions about what it means to be powerful.” “… Russian strength has shown itself to be … overrated …. What this war might be showing us … is that a military is only as strong as the society, economy, and political structure that assembled it. … Russia was nowhere near a […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Time Is Not On Kyiv’s Side: Training, Weapons, and Attrition in Ukraine” – Modern War Institute at West Point

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

“… If senior Ukrainian officers are to be believed, the war will not end with a ceasefire while Russian boots are on Ukrainian soil. They are determined not only to remove Putin’s gains since … February, but also to recover areas of the Donbas … under de facto Russian control since 2014. Crimea, some Ukrainians admit, may prove to be […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin still wants most of Ukraine, war outlook grim – U.S. intelligence chief” – Reuters

Ukraine Map Highlighting Donbas, adapted from image at defense.gov, with photo credit to Peggy Frierson, DOD

“… Putin still wants to seize most of Ukraine, but his forces are so degraded by combat that they likely can only achieve incremental gains in the near term … [said] Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, outlining the current U.S. intelligence assessment of the more than four-month war[.] … [T]he consensus of U.S. spy agencies is that it will […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘Hell on earth’: Ukrainian soldiers describe eastern front” – AP

Ukraine Map Highlighting Donbas, adapted from image at defense.gov, with photo credit to Peggy Frierson, DOD

“Torched forests and cities burned to the ground. Colleagues with severed limbs. Bombardments so relentless the only option is to lie in a trench, wait and pray. … Ukrainian soldiers returning from the front lines in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region — where Russia is waging a fierce offensive — describe life during what has turned into a grueling war of […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian withdrawal from Snake Island offers path for Ukraine grain shipments” – Financial Times

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

“Moscow says retreat shows ‘goodwill’ but Kyiv claims victory after bombardment of strategic Black Sea outpost.” [scroll down for maps] “Russia withdrew forces from … strategic Black Sea outpost … Snake Island in what the defence ministry described as a ‘gesture of goodwill’ to help restore Ukrainian grain shipments, but which Kyiv claimed was a humiliating retreat. The [Russian defense] […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Official: Russia could see West’s sanctions as cause for war” – AP

Dmitri Medvedev file photo

“A senior Russian official warned Thursday that Moscow could see Western sanctions as a cause for war. Dmitry Medvedev, … deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council chaired by … Putin, denounced … Western [sanctions]  …. ‘Under certain circumstances, such hostile measures could be perceived as an act of international aggression, or even as a casus belli,’ Medvedev said … using […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Russia’s Military ‘Reshuffle’ Hints at Frustration With Slow Ukraine Advance” – Moscow Times

Kremlin and River

(Moscow Times – James Beardsworth – June 29, 2022) Official statements and footage released by Russia’s Defense Ministry suggests the Kremlin has reshuffled the country’s military command structure in recent weeks, according to analysts, as the ongoing Russian offensive in Ukraine yields few territorial gains. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Gennady Zhidko’s appearance alongside Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on a visit […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian Military Forecasting and Analysis: The Military-Political Situation and Military Potential in Strategic Planning” – RAND

European Portion of Commonwealth of Independent States

[scroll down for embedded 181-page PDF] … Given the large military potential imbalance between the two sides, the continued cohesion of … NATO … will likely force Russia to resolve political grievances without … the use of force against NATO. NATO cohesion creates at least three operational problems for Russia. First, [NATO’s combined] preponderance of military potential that could prove […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Pay Raises, More News and Tighter Control: Staff at Russian State TV Work Overtime Amid Ukraine War” – Moscow Times

File Photo of Kremlin Tower, St. Basil's, Red Square at Night

(Moscow Times – Anastasia Tenisheva – June 27, 2022) “No war” and “They are lying to you” were not messages Russian viewers expected to see during a news bulletin on state-run television. But that was exactly what happened when producer Marina Ovsyannikova stormed a live broadcast waving an anti-war poster shortly after Russia’s attack on Ukraine. “The atmosphere was terrible […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “After the war: AMEURUS; We need to be thinking now about ensuring Russia doesn’t form a power bloc with China in the long term — and even about what may appear now to be an unthinkable alliance” – Politico.eu

European Portion of Commonwealth of Independent States

“… Putin’s geopolitical megalomania and rule of fear was clearly inspired by former absolutist regimes. … [W]hat we’re seeing now is rudimentary proof that absolutism is no longer tolerated …. [T]he chances that Russia will, after this self-inflicted humiliation, embark on a better, more liberal path aren’t bad at all — historically speaking. Two major military defeats triggered modernization in […]

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JRL NEWSBLOG: “Can Putin Survive? The Lessons of the Soviet Collapse” – Foreign Affairs/ Vladislav Zubok

File Photo of Kremlin Tower, St. Basil's, Red Square at Night

“… Putin grossly miscalculated by invading Ukraine, and … has exposed the regime’s vulnerabilities — an economy … much more interdependent with Western economies than its Soviet predecessor … and a highly concentrated political system that lacks the tools for political and military mobilization …. If the war grinds on, Russia will become a less powerful international actor. A prolonged […]

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JRL NEWSBLOG: “Why Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky Won’t Say Ukraine Is Winning the War” – Newsweek

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

“… Russia had lots of guns and materiel but … proved to be … poorly led, badly trained. … [S]carcely anyone wants to say that Russia has lost. … Zelensky, desperate for external support and more guns, motivator of the people and rouser of the troops, has to … [avoid allowing] all of the urgency and attention [to] dissipate. … […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Ukraine Will Win: Kyiv’s Theory of Victory” – Foreign Affairs/ Dmytro Kuleba

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

“… As fatigue grows and attention wanders, more and more Kremlin-leaning commentators are proposing to sell out Ukraine for the sake of peace and economic stability in their own countries. Although they may pose as pacifists or realists, they are better understood as enablers of Russian imperialism and war crimes. … Putin does not simply want to take more Ukrainian […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Is the West supplying Ukraine with enough weapons? The answer depends, in part, on what the goal is” – The Economist

Ukraine Map Highlighting Donbas, adapted from image at defense.gov, with photo credit to Peggy Frierson, DOD

“… [Western] help is desperately needed. In recent weeks Ukraine has made some gains …. small consolations next to the steady gains that Russia’s army has made in the … Donbas. … Russia’s army is concentrating its forces and using them more methodically than it did in the first stage of the conflict …. Russia also has a big advantage […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “The battle of Donbas could prove decisive in Ukraine war” – AP

Ukraine Map Highlighting Donbas, adapted from image at defense.gov, with photo credit to Peggy Frierson, DOD

“…. Russia is pounding the Donbas … with relentless artillery and air raids, making slow but steady progress …. If Russia prevails in the … Donbas, it will mean … Ukraine loses not only land but perhaps the bulk of its most capable military forces, opening the way for Moscow to grab more territory and dictate … terms …. A […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia likely to seize all of Luhansk in coming weeks, U.S. official says” – Washington Post

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

“Russia is likely to seize control of the entire Luhansk region … within a few weeks, a senior U.S. defense official said, as Ukraine sustains heavy casualties and its supplies of ammunition dwindle. … [That] would leave Russia short of its … [goal] of capturing all of Luhansk and Donetsk, … the Donbas …. But it would still … [be] […]

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The Week In Russia: ‘The Complete Collapse Of Everything’

File Photo of Statue of Peter the Great on Horse Atop Rock in St. Petersburg, Russia, adapted from image at cia.gov

(Article text Copyright © 2022 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036. – rferl.org – Steve Gutterman – June 10, 2022 – article text also appeared at rferl.org/a/week-in-russia-complete-collapse-of-everything/31892257.html) As the war in Ukraine rages, Russian President Vladimir Putin likens himself to Tsar Peter the Great — but […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Has a Patriotism Problem. [Interview with Masha Lipman]” – The New Yorker

File Photo of Vladimir Putin at Podium with United Russia Logo, Gesturing

“The Kremlin depends on ‘passive loyalty’ from the Russian public. What if winning the war in Ukraine demands something more?” “It has been more than a hundred days since Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine. … [T]he Ukrainians — armed by the United States and Europe — have fought back ferociously and repelled assaults on several key cities. … […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “The conflict in Ukraine is settling into a war of attrition; But who can keep going longest?” – The Economist

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

“… Russia’s net gains in eastern Ukraine between the middle of April and the end of May [reportedly] add up to just over 450 square kilometres (about a third of the size of Greater London) …. Neither Russia nor Ukraine looks likely to make a decisive breakthrough. … Russia’s losses have been severe. The invasion force that it initially committed […]

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After 100 Days, Russian Offensive Crawls Toward Eventual Defeat

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

(Jamestown Foundation/PONARS – jamestown.org – Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 19 Issue: 83 – Pavel K. Baev – June 6, 2022) Russian military strategists argue that modern wars are decided in the high-intensity initial period; and the multi-pronged large-scale offensive into Ukraine was indeed launched, on February 24, 2022, with the aim of achieving a decisive success in the first couple […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Zelensky says stalemate with Russia ‘not an option'” – Financial Times

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

“President tells FT conference western sanctions ‘have not really influenced’ Moscow’s position.” “… Zelensky said a stalemate in the war with Russia was ‘not an option for us’ as he once more appealed for western military support to restore his country’s territorial integrity. ‘We are inferior in terms of equipment and therefore we are not capable of advancing,’ … ‘We […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine: ‘Constant’ military aid needed from West until Russia defeated” – AFP

File Photo of Soldier Firing Javelin Shoulder-Mounted Anti-Tank Missile

“Deputy defense minister says support ‘cannot be a one-time thing, but something that continues until our victory’” “Ukraine’s deputy defense minister stressed Sunday that the country needed continuous military support from Western countries until it defeat[s] Moscow’s forces …. The U.S. and European countries are attempting to help Kyiv’s war effort while not entering as direct belligerents. … supplying Ukraine […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Deadly secret: Electronic warfare shapes Russia-Ukraine war” – AP

Montage of Military Equipment, Circuitry, Artistic Enhancements, adapted from U.S. Army image at defense.gov

“… Electronic warfare … targets communications, navigation and guidance systems to locate, blind and deceive the enemy and direct lethal blows. … used against artillery, fighter jets, cruise missiles, drones and more. … [or] use[d] … to protect [one’s own] forces. … [F]or reasons not entirely clear, [Russia’s] much-touted electronic warfare prowess was barely seen in the war’s early stages […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “As Ukraine loses troops, how long can it keep up the fight?” – AP

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

“Concentrations of Russian artillery are causing many of the casualties in the eastern regions …. Retired [U.S.] Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges … described the Russian strategy as a ‘medieval attrition approach’ and said that until Ukraine gets promised deliveries of U.S., British and other weapons to destroy and disrupt Russian batteries, ‘these kinds of casualties are going to continue.’ ‘This […]

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