Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank, said late Tuesday that Putin believes Russia “can slowly and indefinitely subsume Ukraine through grinding advances and that Russia can achieve its goals through a war of attrition against Ukrainian forces and by outlasting Western support” for Kyiv.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba resigns as Russian strikes kill seven people in Lviv
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The Institute for the Study of War said it expected that Ukraine would lose some Western-provided military equipment in the fighting.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy fires Mykola Oleshchuk, Ukraine's air force commander, after fatal F-16 crash
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