Ukraine says Putin readying to launch major new offensive; inside the ‘Bakhmut meat grinder’; Zelenskiy’s greatest bargaining chip; Putin cancels year-end press conference
A Ukrainian artilleryman stands inside a self-propelled howitzer along the frontline near Bakhmut.is taking place in the eastern Donetsk city of Bakhmut. Once home to 72,000, the civilian population has dwindled to 12,000 over the past six months, surviving in basements and supplied by mobile grocery trucks that enter the city when they can.
“The costs associated with six months of brutal, grinding and attrition-based combat around Bakhmut far outweigh any operational advantage that the Russians can obtain from taking Bakhmut.”The Russian shell that struck in the night had taken away the wall of a top-floor apartment, and in its place was just freezing air blowing off the Dnieper River – and a view of Europe’s biggest nuclear power station on the other bank.
After 10 months of war, the blocks are half empty, so there are fewer people to kill. The only reported casualty on this particular night was a 65-year-old man who was taken to hospital, and whose flat now afforded such a comprehensive view of the power plant.Was the Viktor Bout exchange deal a win for Moscow?
Both Russia and Bout had long denied suspicions that he was an asset for the Russian spy services, and in his first remarks after arriving, Bout seemed to nod and wink at the belief that he held some secret value for the Kremlin.
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