RUSSIA'S STALLED WAR IN UKRAINE
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more RUSSIA'S STALLED WAR IN UKRAINE The conflict's transformation into a drone war has turned the tide Seymour Hersh Apr 22 ∙ Preview Russian General Staff of Armed Forces Chief Valery Gerasimov attends a military ceremony outside Moscow in 2022. / Photo by Getty Images. The war in Ukraine, which began with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion in February 2022, has gone on longer than the Soviet war against Nazi Germany. With its huge army and population, Russia seemed in the early years to be on the verge of winning only to have Putin, behaving like the irrational czars of the past, reject peace plans that gave him control of some of the territory his troops had taken inside eastern Ukraine. And now, I have been told, a war that Russia seemed to be winning has turned in the last year into an economic and military nightmare for Putin and the Russian army led by General Valery Gerasimov, the battle-tested commander who i...
