bildt103_Metin AktasAnadolu Agency via Getty Images_kharkiv Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Winter Is Coming, and Putin Is Failing

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Europe has witnessed its most intense fighting since World War II. But a highly successful Ukrainian counteroffensive indicates that the tide is turning decisively against Russian President Vladimir Putin, who cannot deny reality indefinitely.

STOCKHOLM – When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war of aggression against Ukraine on February 24, he evidently expected a quick and easy victory. Having implied in his speeches that Ukraine was a flimsy fiction of a nation, he assumed that it was bound to collapse, although he committed almost 85% of Russia’s active-duty army to his so-called “special operation.”

https://prosyn.org/cq0gWaU