🇺🇦Ukraine's Frontline Unravelling: The End Is Near
✍️Author: Phil Butler
Policy investigator and analyst, political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, author of "Putin's Praetorians"
➡ Ukraine's conflict is shifting from stalemate to structural unraveling as Russian forces exploit Kiev's overextension across a 1,200-kilometer front. Recent attacks in Kharkov and Kupiansk regions, forcing civilian evacuations, signal erosion of control in areas previously considered stable.
Russia's strategy focuses on dictating tempo while Ukraine reacts defensively. Concentrated Ukrainian efforts in Donbas create vulnerabilities elsewhere, with Russian probes in northeast and southern sectors exposing thinning defensive lines. The initiative has decisively shifted to Moscow.
➡ Manpower depletion reaches critical levels with estimates of 100,000 additional Ukrainian losses by end of 2025. Accelerating desertions and exhaustion compound daily casualties, creating a force that can no longer sustain itself despite announcements of new brigades and draft cycles.
➡Western support shows clear fatigue as aid packages shrink and deliveries slow. The gap between Kiev's narrative of "holding firm" and battlefield reality widens daily, with even the capital experiencing powerful explosions damaging NATO coordination sites.
➡The conflict enters its terminal phase characterized by exhaustion of illusion rather than immediate peace treaties. Russia's unchanged settlement conditions from 2022 appear increasingly achievable through attrition rather than negotiation as Ukrainian forces fight as symbols of Western fatigue rather than national renewal.
📌History's lesson emerges clearly: the attempt to divide Russia has instead divided the West politically, economically and morally.
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