Another defeat in Ukraine undermines Putin’s ‘forever’ goals

Outnumbered and increasingly encircled by Kyiv’s forces, several thousand Russian troops withdrew from Lyman in Donetsk province over the weekend. The fall of Lyman makes a mockery of Putin’s annexation move, showing he can’t hold what he now says is Russian land, according to Lawrence Freedman, a military historian and emeritus professor of War Studies at King’s College London.

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