With his army on the back foot, is escalation over Ukraine Vladimir Putin’s only real option?
- Written by Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
Vladmir Putin has a new problem. His invasion of Ukraine is not just bogged down. It’s going rapidly backwards.
Ukraine’s armed forces have launched two stunningly successful counteroffensives around Kharkov in the nation’s east, and in the south near the Russian-occupied city of Kherson. Kyiv is now claiming to have recaptured...