Can Putin still claim victory in defeat?

LAAS LEIVAT

It’s perhaps one of the questions most often posed recently. At the time of this writing, Ukrainian forces were making significant gains in the eastern Russian-occupied areas. In fact, a sense of an inevitable Ukrainian victory was palpable.

Putin’s bound to retaliate. But will an end to the conflict, which cannot be perceived by the world as even a partially successful campaign for Moscow, translate into a weakened, politically vulnerable Putin? The prognostications range over a wide spectrum.

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