Ukraine momentum is shifting in Russians favor: Report 14Jun 2022

Ukraine momentum is shifting in Russians favor

But his forces have made slow, systematic and bloody progress toward control of eastern Ukraine.

A war in Ukraine that began with Russia’s defeat as its forces failed to occupy the Ukrainian capital Kiev and seemingly began to turn around, Russia is now choosing regional targets, Ukraine lacks the necessary weapons and Western support for the war. Try.

On the 108th day of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war, Russia, driven by its conviction that Ukraine was an unjustly taken territory from the Russian Empire, was nowhere near Russia’s victory.

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But his forces have made slow, systematic and bloody progress toward control of eastern Ukraine.

On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised another victory. “We must win the war that Russia has started,” he told a news conference in Singapore. “The future of this world is being determined by the battlefield of Ukraine.”

Yet, the early days of the war – when the Ukrainian poor held back a deceitful and incompetent invader and Putin’s indiscriminate bombing engulfed the West in rage – began to fade.

In their place is a war that analysts are increasingly saying will be a long slogan, putting increasing pressure on governments and economies in Western countries and on others in the world.

This slogan is nowhere clearer than in the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine. Despite urgent requests to the West for more heavy weapons, Ukrainian forces lack what they need to cope with the use of Russian artillery for shelling in cities and villages.

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As Ukraine holds Russia’s main regional city of Severodnetsk, it is facing heavy losses – killing at least 100 people a day, although the full number is still unknown – and more weapons and ammunition are needed.

Russia appears to be making progress in establishing control over its occupied cities, including the Black Sea port of Mariupol. It is ready to convince the rest of the population that its future sees Putin as its re-established empire.

Citizens there and in cities like Kherson and Melitopol face a vague choice: if they want to work, they must first obtain a Russian passport, a perfect proposal to secure a symbol of allegiance to Moscow.

Propaganda, comparing Putin to Russia’s first emperor Peter the Great, set fire to Petro Andreushchenko, an adviser to the city’s mayor, in Mariupol, in what he called a “pseudo-historicist” attack.

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The comparison that Putin made to himself is dear to the heart of the Russian president. He has repeatedly said that Ukraine is not a real nation and that its real identity is Russian. However, his attack had previously cemented and galvanized the Ukrainian national identity in unimaginable ways.

Russia has its own difficulties, especially in southern Ukraine, where the pre-war Kherson provincial capital is still being fought. Attacks by former Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have increased in recent weeks.

Russia’s losses in the war are not yet known, but it certainly runs into the thousands, a potential source of anger at Putin, whose authoritarian stance on Russia continues.

If Russia’s economy shows surprising resilience, it has been hit by Western sanctions; A brain drain will reduce growth over many years. In the West, Putin’s position is unlikely to change.

Elsewhere, however, in Africa and Asia, Western support – and for Ukraine – is more subtle. Many countries see little difference between Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq; Otherwise it seems impossible to persuade them.

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More generally, there is resentment among many in the developing world who see the 20th century as a hangover that is seen as US domination.

In this context, the strong partnership between China and Russia is not seen as a source of animosity and concern in the West, but as a welcome challenge to a Western-ruled global system.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III, on a trip to Asia to warn of possible Chinese aggression against Taiwan, sought to back Ukraine’s strong Western support against Russian aggression on Saturday.

“When the big powers decide that their imperialist appetite is more important than the rights of their peaceful neighbors,” he said. “And it’s a prelude to a potential world of chaos and unrest where none of us want to be.”

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