Moscow's war has been hampered by strategic and tactical failures, but Russian forces are still holding one-fifth of Ukraine.
The third year of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will begin with a largely static 900-mile front line. Russian and Ukrainian forces have taken turns attempting to smash through the fortified contact line but with limited success.For Russia, the battlefield situation is a testament to systemic failure.
'Goodwill Gestures'The war's front-line stasis is a far cry from the fighting in 2022, when swaths of territory changed hands in weeks of fluid, mechanized combat. Russia's retreat from Kyiv in April was followed by both sides refitting before Ukraine scored major victories in the eastern Kharkiv region and the southern Kherson region.Ukraine's southern offensive toward Kherson—and eventually as far as the banks of the Dnieper River —was long previewed.
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