The Kremlin hopes to regain territory and force Kyiv to agree a truce, according to reports citing Russian officials and an update from the Institute for the Study of War.
Former British intelligence officer Philip Ingram has said that Putin and his new Ukraine commander,
, will want to do something before the tanks and armored fighting vehicles coming from Western allies are deployed.."Gerasimov is much more measured militarily so will set the conditions first. "The Ukrainians are just trying to fix the Russians in place and to do this may have to trade some space for time—they will be using that time to get their experienced troops out to go and be trained" on the western-supplied equipment.
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