Originally Posted by tdoyka
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-updates


Christina Harward, Karolina Hird, Riley Bailey, Grace Mappes, Angelica Evans, George Barros, and Frederick W. Kagan

January 18, 2024


Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated that Russia’s maximalist objectives in Ukraine remain unchanged and that Russia is not interested in negotiations with Ukraine or the West.
Nobody would say something like that unless they were KICKING ASS!


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