JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Ukraine could lose land but still win the war with Russia” – Washington Post
“… fierce Ukrainian resistance is … turning the tide against a superior Russian force [][with] [o]bservers … whispering the once unthinkable — that Ukraine might win. But what would victory look like? Even in triumph, would Ukraine emerge whole? The risk of the Kremlin achieving its apparent initial objective — … decapitation of the Ukrainian government and the complete subjection of its neighbor — seems to be receding. Demoralized and wounded, the Russians are falling back from … Kyiv. The Kremlin’s Plan B, as suggested by … [Russian] generals, still appears to be … partition … keeping parts of Ukraine, if not the entire nation, under long-term Russian control. …”