Moscow said it wants to 'increase mutual trust' but Western officials have suggested it is more about buying time to regroup troops.
Michael Clarke, a defence analyst, said Moscow's failure to overrun Ukraine had come into play."They realise, I am sure, that they have got to concentrate their forces. They are far too widely distributed.
Yet he also questioned whether Ukraine can sustain its military operations, citing Russia's"good track record" of starting wars"disastrously" but then winning through sheer force of manpower.A shell crater as deep as a Ukrainian soldier scars a village on the front line in the east Kyiv region "Whether it's simply trying to regroup, given the heavy losses that it suffered, I don't know," he said.
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