So Eric, you and I and all of our colleagues have been watching this one city in Eastern Ukraine, Bakhmut. That’s kind of what’s happening here in that because Bakhmut is so important for the Russians, the Ukrainians are hanging on. So think of this as a months-long campaign that’s going to go at least through the summer. And of course, we’ve seen it time and time again in this war, right? So in the best case scenario, Bakhmut could be the marker in our memory of the moment when Ukraine lost the battle but won the war.

Source: The Times May 24, 2023 22:33 UTC