Last February, few observers thought we would be approaching the first anniversary of Russia’s war against Ukraine with brutal battles raging along a front stretching from Kharkiv in the northeast to Kherson in the south. Russian troops were supposed to seize Kyiv in a matter of days, oust President Volodymyr Zelensky and install a loyal puppet. Ukrainian valor, along with Western support, spoiled the plan, and the two sides settled into a war of attrition. Ukrainian counteroffensives last fall retook about half of the territory surrounding Kharkiv and Kherson, but did not alter the fundamental character of the war.
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