Both sides are now rearming for offensives, with Ukraine raising a new army corps and Russia using mobilised men to train up fresh units
Nevertheless, the opening stage of the war was a closer-run thing than many assumed at the time. Doubting that Russia would invade, Ukraine’s civilian leaders were not fully prepared themselves, despite extensive warnings from America and Britain. The majority of Ukraine’s regular forces were pinned down in the eastern Donbas region, after anticipating that any attack would probably come only there. Russian jets and tanks were superior to Ukrainian ones.
But his forces found creative ways to hit back. In April Ukraine mounted daring cross-border helicopter raids on the Russian city of Belgorod and then sank the, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet—one of the biggest naval losses for any country since the Falklands war of 1982. Ukraine also dominated the information war in the West. In August we described the antics of the
, a virtual pro-Ukraine army whose members take the guise of shiba inu dogs and fight Russian propagandists with memes. The third phase of the war began in the summer, as Ukraine switched to the offensive. In June it received the firstrocket launchers from America, longer-range and more precise than anything in the Russian arsenal. It began so-called
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