Raksha Anirveda
ANALYSIS
The Russo-Ukrainian War: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead With the fall of Mariupol, President Putin is likely to declare victory and shelve greater plans of subjugation. Various nations are now studying lessons from the unusual war and the challenges ahead for being heavily dependent on both Ukraine and Russia. For India, military supplies will be hit and upgradation plans may see delays, but Indian firms may replace the companies that have left Russia and export grains and food to replace the void created by Ukraine 26
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By Cmde Ranjit B Rai
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t the time of writing, the Russo-Ukrainian war was in the form of an onslaught by the Russian forces to tame Ukraine to succumb to Russia’s demands and not join NATO. It was the 58th day of the war since it began on February 24. Russia called it a Special Operation, attacking Ukraine from many directions, possibly expecting a capitulation of the military and political regime headed by President Zelenskky, a former comedian, but the fighting spirit of Ukrainians has surprised the world. Russia employed five main axes of attack into Ukraine, to the capital Kyiv from Belarus in the North with Chernobyl, Chernihiv and Sumy on the way; Kharkiv in the north-east where many Indian medical students were studying and Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to President Putin to execute their rescue; Donetsk and Luhansk in the east; and Kherson in the south, yet the action in the South and Kyiv has petered, but it has been a humanitarian catastrophe.
