Probabilmente otterrai un paywall senza abbonamento ma i primi paragrafi sono sufficienti per capire:
Dopo aver combattuto per quattro anni un’invasione non provocata su vasta scala, l’esercito ucraino sta mantenendo le forze russe a guadagni marginali e allo stesso tempo ottenendo costi esorbitanti in vite umane e tesori. Sebbene quest’inverno sia stato particolarmente difficile per i civili ucraini a causa degli attacchi russi alla rete elettrica che hanno gettato nell’oscurità molte città, la linea del fronte è rimasta stabile.
Le affermazioni del Cremlino secondo cui le forze russe stanno per sfondare e invadere le città fortificate nell’oblast di Donetsk – o in qualsiasi altra regione dell’Ucraina – sono spavalderie. I dati che monitoriamo presso l’Institute for the Study of War lo confermano. E i leader militari con cui abbiamo parlato durante un recente viaggio in Ucraina sono sempre più fiduciosi di poter continuare a tenere a bada i russi fintantoché continuano ad arrivare gli aiuti occidentali.
Gli autori:
Frederick W. Kagan è il direttore del Critical Threats Project presso l’American Enterprise Institute. Kimberly Kagan è la fondatrice e presidente dell’Istituto per lo studio della guerra.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/04/russia-ukraine-war-territorial-gains-putin/
di PeterOutOfPlace
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Many Westerners’ dogmatically misguided focus on Putin keeps missing the point and what matters to 40 million+ Ukrainians.
It’s disgusting and indefensible 12 years into the Russians’ latest attempt to [exterminate the Ukrainians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification_of_Ukraine#Peter_I_and_his_successors).
For this latest invasion to end, and more importantly the Russians to (finally) start getting their civilizational ѕhіt together, 140 million+ of them (or more precisely, the 18 million+ self-absorbed bоugіеѕ and ѕmаrt-аѕѕеd “Ііbеrаlѕ” squatting in Moscow and St. Petersburg) need to grow a proper spine *yesterday* and show Putin and his goons en masse that they’re all meaningfully outraged about how they’ve embedded themselves in [**yet another** forever war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Russia#Table_of_changes) and how their poor compatriots from Siberia are still going for a chance at “glory” in becoming sunflower fertilizer somewhere in eastern Ukraine.
Yet given Оrdіnаrу Ruѕѕіаn СіtіzеnЅ’ unforgivable and amply demonstrated cultural veneration of *vranyo*, bootlicking, warmongering, autocracy, and societal сuсkоІdrу, I wouldn’t hold my breath for too long though.
As long as these 18 million+ city slickers keep whipping out the apolitical card and insisting on “peace” that accounts for Russia’s Security Concerns™ (i.e. indefinite occupation of 20% of Ukraine’s landmass and no accountability for the state-sponsored kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids), then Putin (and whoever will squat in the Kremlin next) can keep on “failing” in the eyes of the civilized world and the oh-so-victimized Russian people alike.
“Subsequent Ukrainian counteroffensives left the Russians holding only about 17.9 percent of Ukraine in November that year [2022 – me]. Since then, Russia has seized only 1.5 percent more Ukrainian land while suffering over 1 million casualties in total.”
This piece is very well presented.
“Let that sink in: Russia has needed three and a half years to seize 9,318 square kilometers, an area smaller than Lebanon or Los Angeles County.”
Worth reading in full if you have Apple News or WP sub for some reason