After Ukraine’s successes in recapturing Russian-occupied territory over the last week, the pressure is now on to maintain the momentum.
Ukraine's forces have been able to recapture dozens of towns and villages in the northeast of the country over the last few days, including the strategically important towns of Izyum and Kupiansk.
"The question is unanswerable. It's hard to tell. It's clear the Ukrainians have made significant progress. But I think it's going to be a long haul," he said Tuesday. Nonetheless, he noted, that"at the same time, we understand who we are dealing with, right? So this is an army of war criminals, and genocidal army, they've not stopped the missile terror."This photograph taken on September 11, 2022, shows a Ukrainian soldier standing atop an abandoned Russian tank near a village on the outskirts of Izyum, Kharkiv Region, eastern Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Aanalysts say that Ukraine's advances will have shaken the Kremlin and believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime is looking more fragile this week. "Kremlin officials and state media propagandists are extensively discussing the reasons for the Russian defeat in Kharkiv Oblast, a marked change from their previous pattern of reporting on exaggerated or fabricated Russian successes with limited detail," analysts at the Institute for the Study of War said Tuesday.
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