Michael Kofman
On February 24, the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine will reach a grim milestone, grinding into its fifth year. For Ukraine, this war is a continuation of Russia’s 2014 invasion. For Russia, what was branded as a “special military operation” has now gone on longer than even the Soviet Union’s “Great Patriotic War” from 1941 to 1945 and has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. The 2022 invasion started as a failed Russian attempt to quickly subjugate Ukraine but has become Europe’s largest conventional conflict since World War II. A war initially defined by maneuver, in which Russian forces tried to leverage
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