For the First Time Since 2023, Russia Is Losing Ground in Ukraine — and Putin’s War Chest Is Burning Behind Him
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Caleb Larson
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National Security JournalFor the First Time Since 2023, Russia Is Losing Ground in Ukraine — and Putin’s War Chest Is Burning Behind Himnationalsecurityjournal.orgThe map is finally moving against Putin. For the first time since 2023, Russia's share of occupied Ukraine is shrinking — a small shift, but a real one, won at a cost of nearly 1.5 million Russian casualties, the worst of any European nation since WWII. And behind the front, Ukraine's "long-range sanctions" are torching the refineries that fund the war, forcing fuel rationing in 56 regions. Putin wanted a war of days. Five years in, the realistic forecast is Russia muddling along, absorbing losses, and hoping to ride it out.
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