In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
The peninsula is becoming a death trap for the Kremlin’s forces
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GOOD NEWS, at last, from Ukraine. The approval in April of the Biden administration’s $61bn military-support package, after six months of Congressional delay, is having an impact. In particular, the arrival of ATACMS ballistic missiles, with a range of 300km, means that Ukraine can now hit any target in Russian-occupied Crimea, with deadly effect.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The war in the south”
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