100 days later, whatever plans Putin may have had for a victory parade in Kyiv are on indefinite hold. Russia's main direction of effort is now in the Donbas region, where things have settled into a grinding war of attrition. Recent fighting has focused around Severodonetsk, an industrial city where Ukrainian forces hold the last sliver of eastern Luhansk region. That war -- now entering its 12th year -- has continued even as the world's attention has shifted to Ukraine. Nikolai Patrushev, the head of Putin's Security Council, said in recent remarks that Russian forces aren't "chasing deadlines" in Ukraine, suggesting Putin has a much more open-ended timeline for his war in Ukraine.

Source: CNN June 03, 2022 16:34 UTC