Ukraine has 'defeated the initial Russian campaign,' study concludes

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Ukrainian soldiers in Kyiv FADEL SENNA / AFP) (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images

The New York Times reported that the Institute for the Study of War concluded that the initial Russian campaign of this war had been defeated.

The assessment states that Russian forces are very unlikely to capture the objectives of ousting the Ukrainian government and swiftly capturing Kyiv if they persist in their current strategy.

The assessment concluded that Russian forces should pause and regroup instead of continuing to feed small collections of reinforcements into an ongoing effort to keep the current campaign alive.

Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense of the United States, made similar comments in Bulgaria on Saturday. He said that they have not been able to do that.

In an address to the nation delivered Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that over 15,000 Russian troops have been killed since the invasion began. Russian military deaths are estimated by the U.S. to be around 7,000.

In places of especially fierce battles, the frontline of our defense is piled with the corpses of Russian soldiers.

The director of foreign and defense policy at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute wrote in The Washington Post on Thursday that the Russian military's deficiencies are making the war worse.

Russia's first resort to overcome its weaknesses has been to shift its focus from attacking military forces to targeting civilians.

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights was able to confirm that 847 Ukrainian civilians have been killed in the fighting, though the report also says that the actual figures are considerably higher.

There were no rocket strikes on Ukrainian cities over the past day. Western nations call it an aggressive war of choice and have imposed punishing sanctions on Russia.
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