'Huge gains made by Ukrainian forces in recent days are a tribute to the bravery of troops fighting for a nation’s survival,' writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis
Editor’s Note: This story was adapted from the September 13 edition of CNN’s Meanwhile in America, the email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. Ukraine’s stunning recapture of vast areas of Russian-held territory is renewing the focus on the most chilling unknown of a war already marked by extreme cruelty – the depths to which a cornered Vladimir Putin might descend.
Basking in the latest Ukrainian victories, Zelensky almost taunted Putin in a Telegram post addressed to Russia Sunday, asking, “Do you still think that we are ‘one nation?’ Do you still think that you can scare us, break us, make us make concessions?” But tempering the euphoria in the West is not just the reality that war can be unpredictable and battlefield gains can be reversed.
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