Russians make fast progress in Ukraine as overstretched armies scramble to resist
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Russians make fast progress in Ukraine as overstretched armies scramble to resist

ByNews Polite

Russia’s army has made fast progress in Ukraine over the past week, seizing 90 square miles of territory and making military advances at the fastest clip since invading its western neighbor nearly three years ago. The gains in territory equal a territory roughly the size of four Manhattans, and have…

The increasingly murky prospect of an end to Putin’s Ukraine war
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The increasingly murky prospect of an end to Putin’s Ukraine war

ByNews Polite

How is the Ukraine war going to end? This question bedevils smaller arguments over Western aid to the brave Ukrainian forces. Bringing it into tighter focus is Vladimir Putin’s decision to pass the winter with ever-more-brutal strikes on Ukraine’s infrastructure and civilian targets — such as last Saturday’s murderous missile…