onsdag 30. mars 2022

Ukraina - Z taper på Kyiev-fronten - Må reguppere - The Economist


Dette innlegget sier det meste, men forhandlingene i Istanbul kan bare ha vært et nødvendig forsinkende element for russerne. (Red.)


Advancing in a different direction
Russia says it is changing its war aims in Ukraine

Having failed to take Kyiv, Russia may focus on the east

 


Mar 28th 2022

Editor’s note: On March 29th Russia said it would “drastically reduce combat operations” around Kyiv and Chernihiv, another northern city in Ukraine. This article has been updated as a result.



ON FEBRUARY 26TH, shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, RIA Novosti, a Russian state-run news agency, accidentally published an article that had been due to run two days into what the Kremlin thought would be a quick and easy war. “Ukraine has returned to Russia,” it boasted. “Did someone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kiev?” A month into its botched campaign, Russia may be doing just that.

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