This week Kyiv will celebrate independence day, and mark half a year of fighting, with a display of wrecked Russian tanks on its main street. The Russian president’s hopes of a swift victory have come to nothing. Peace talks have stalled. Where do we go from here?
But locals report that the Russians are now struggling to fill mid-level positions, and face a strong underground opposition from among the majority of locals who remain loyal to Ukraine.
As the Russian advance on Kyiv stalled, Putin’s hopes of a swift operation that would install a new pro-Russian government in Kyiv, and keep Ukraine as a nominally independent state but inside Moscow’s orbit, were exposed as being based on a total misunderstanding of how Ukraine has changed in recent years.
Throughout the occupied areas around Kyiv, Russian soldiers committed murder and other war crimes. There was widespread looting. When news of theand elsewhere began to seep out at the end of March, it only hardened Ukrainian resolve, and has left psychological wounds that are likely to fester for generations.
Riga, the capital of Latvia, has become the hub for independent journalists who have been criminalised and banned from working in Russia; Yerevan in Armenia is where thousands of tech professionals have travelled and now call home. Tbilisi in Georgia, the Turkish city of Istanbul, the Serbian capital Belgrade and Berlin all have new Russian exile communities.
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