Russia-Ukraine conflict may grind on for years

As Ukrainian forces struggle a late-summer counterattack to wrest the southern province of Kherson from Russian management, Russian President Vladimir Putin is studying a lesson that many political leaders have realized earlier than: Warfare is commonly for much longer and costlier than anticipated.

Within the six months since Russia launched its assault on Ukraine in February 2022, Putin and his army leaders have confronted sudden resistance from Ukrainian forces.

That’s been the case within the southern province of Kherson, the place Ukrainian forces launched a counterattack on August 28, 2022. Oleksiy Arestovych, a Ukrainian senior presidential adviser, described the offensive as a “sluggish operation to grind the enemy.”

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