As Russia-Ukraine conflict reaches two year mark, it is advantage Putin

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Earlier this month, Russian forces captured Avdiivka, a key city on the Ukrainian defensive line in the Donetsk region. With the stalemated Russia-Ukraine conflict now entering its third year, this breakthrough comes against the background of a steady turn in the tide of the war in Russia’s favour. It’s too early to predict a decisive outcome, but sometimes change comes gradually and then all at once. A war of manoeuvre in its first year, it’s now a war of attrition (Also see ‘The Putin pursuit’, IE, February 24, 2023, and ‘Changing battlefields’, IE, July 10, 2023). Exhaustion of the opponent’s...