None of Putin’s efforts succeeded in halting Ukraine’s battlefield advances. And he has invoked Russia’s nuclear capabilities in not-so-subtle threats. His military hit civilian targets across Ukraine with missile strikes. general said last week.) Putin illegally annexed parts of Ukraine, including Kherson. (More than 100,000 have been wounded or killed on each side since the war began, a U.S. He instituted a draft to replenish Russian forces. Putin has tried to regain momentum through extreme measures. ( These maps show Russia’s territorial losses.)Īnd last month, an attack badly damaged the only bridge linking Russia to Crimea, a Russian-held peninsula in the south. Kherson is also key to controlling Ukraine’s southern coast. The city was the only provincial capital that Russia had seized this year, and its capture marked one of Russia’s biggest early successes. Ukraine’s recapture of Kherson is both a symbolic and strategic victory. Today’s newsletter will look at the Ukrainian military’s recent successes and what might come next. Putin seems to be counting on it to give Russian troops extra time to rebuild and regroup. The cold, wet fall and coming winter, with its freezing temperatures and snowfall, could pause large offensives. “If you had asked a reasonable person in September what the best-case scenario for Ukraine was, the situation in Kherson is pretty close,” my colleague Julian Barnes, who covers national security for The Times, said.īut the war may be about to enter a new phase, as The Times explained.
A renewed Ukrainian military offensive has clearly put Russian troops on the run.
Russia’s retreat last week from Kherson, a southern port city that it had seized shortly after invading Ukraine, was one of the biggest setbacks yet to President Vladimir Putin’s war effort.
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