Entering the second year of Russia’s war in Ukraine, both countries have been planning fresh campaigns to seize territory.
the quick victory many anticipated — has been able to successfully regroup and course correct. Yet intensified fighting could also pose new challenges for the Western alliance propping up Ukraine, as key partners gather this week in Poland on the eve of the war’s one-year anniversary.at the presidential palace in Kyiv on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his side.
Now, as the Kremlin aims to show the fight is not over, it appears to have set its sights on capturing the remaining Ukrainian-held areas of the eastern Donbas — an area Putin has already claimed to have annexed but does not fully control. “But we have to admit that without stronger and more vital Western countries’ support, Ukraine will not win,” Reinsalu told NBC News.Fast advances by Russia in its offensive could increase concerns about the Western alliance’s staying power as the war enters its second year. To Putin’s chagrin, Western fears that the war’s mounting costs and reverberations from economic sanctions imposed on Russia would erode support for Ukraine have so far not been borne out.
Yet the war’s economic toll continues to climb, with Europeans struggling through a winter of record-high energy bills and a cost-of-living crisis attributed partially to the war. In the United States, a group of Republicans in the newly GOP-controlled House is calling for an immediate stop to U.S. assistance to Ukraine, as a newshows support among Americans for arming Ukraine has fallen from 60 percent last May to just 48 percent this month.
Ukrainian flags wave over the graves of fallen servicemen at a cemetery in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region that is close to the war's front lines.Yet if Ukraine’s planned counteroffensive enjoys early success, quickly liberating large swaths of Russian-held territory, it could further embolden Kyiv to insist that 100 percent of its land be returned before the war can end.
“No matter what the Ukrainians decide about Crimea, in terms of where they choose to fight, etc., Ukraine is not going to be safe unless Crimea is at a minimum — at a minimum — demilitarized,” U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland told the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace this month.
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